Title: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Glass, Philip Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy music-drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male four parts
A science-fiction music-drama realized by Philip Glass, David Henry Hwang, and Jerome Sirlin. A 90-minute monologue.
Title: 15 Seconds
Author: Archambault, Francois translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Brimming with a dark and brittle humour, FIFTEEN SECONDS is a play about a young female advertising copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother handicapped by cerebral palsy. These four characters are constantly making choices about reality and illusion; imagination and fantasy; the hale and the handicapped - about the way things are and the way they might be. They are utterly unable to imagine each other, and though they all remember that they should try to do so, they seem to have forgotten from where this moral
Title: 24 Favorite One Act Plays
Author: Publisher: Doubleday 1958
Description:
collection - drama
includes: 27 Wagons Full of Cotton - Tennessee Williams Spreading the News - Lady Gregory A Marriage Proposal - Anton Chekhov In the Shadow of the Glen - J. M. Synge Cathleen ni Houlihan - W.B. Yeats The Jest of Hahalaba - Lord Dunsany Trifles - Susan Glaspell The Happy Journey - Thornton Wilder The Ugly Duckling - A.A. Milne Title: 2B (or not 2B) in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Reingold, Jacquelyn Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
suggested for high school.
What happens when Franny, heart broken and single, is seduced by a giant Bee who needs a Queen?
Title: 39 Steps, The
Author: Barlow, Patrick Buchan, John Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - mystery four characters three male; one female two acts
Patrick Barlow's adaptation of John Buchan's "The 39 Steps".
In "The 39 Steps", a man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she's a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called "The 39 Steps" is hot on the man's trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, "The 39 Steps" amounts to
Title: 3:59 AM: A Drag Race for Two Actors in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Ramirez, Marco Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
10 minute play.
Award-winning play about a behind-the-wheel encounter between two men on the edge. Title: 50 Below Zero in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - children eight to ten characters two boys, one girl, five to seven boys or girls one act
Irene N. Watts' adaptation of Robert Munsch's work.
Jason tries to wake his father as he is sleepwalking.
Title: Absalom in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Kazan, Zoe Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters four male; two female four scenes
"At a Berkshires country house, the children of an aging literary giant gather for a party celebrating the release of their patriarch's tell-all autobiography. When an unexpected guest appears, this family — writers or editors all — must reckon with their stories and who owns them, and with the secrets, betrayals and deep bonds that define what they'll do for love."
Title: Actor in You, The Sixteen simple steps to understanding the art of acting Author: Benedetti, Robert Publisher: Pearson Education 2009
Description:
This book serves as an introduction to beginning acting by helping students realize that they already possess the basic skills of an actor. It draws on exercises and examples from student's everyday lives, well known plays, and popular television programs to lead the beginning student through the process of creating a role. Organized in sixteen steps that can correspond to the weeks of a typical semester, the fourth edition of THE ACTORS IN YOU continues to provide a direct, concise presentation of acting fundamentals for beginning students. Title: Adopt a Sailor
Author: Evered, Charles Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2007
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
A play about three human beings who normally wouldn't be in the same state let alone the same apartment together. Yet still, all three find they have more in common that they might ever have imagined.
Title: After Magritte
Author: Stoppard, Tom Publisher: Faber and Faber 1971
Description:
roy avant garde comedy five characters three male; two female one act
Three people witness a mundane incident and each gives legitimate reasons for absurd arguments as they describe the event. Finally, irrational, pompous policeman supplies solution.
Title: After You
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1995
Description:
roy drama six characters (doubling) one male; four female two acts
Adele is dying and Jean is helping her. The cousins have come back to the family cottage on Lake Kawartha so that the stroke-ravaged Adele may die with peace and dignity. Jean methodically administers the required drugs but memory refuses to release its hold on either woman. The cottage and lake conjure up the ghosts of their former selves, and of the young man who was, to their minds, the "fork in the road" that determined the path of their lives. Title: Afterimage
Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama eight characters four male; four female one act
Lise Lacoeur was used to being shunned by everyone around her. Her gift to see flashes of the future had left her ostracized from her town and community. But Lise’s life of solitude came to an end when burn victim Winston Evans is admitted to the hospital where Lise works. Seeing beyond Winston’s disfiguring scars and foreseeing a future with him, Lise falls in love and the couple soon marry. Years later, having inherited Lise’s gift, two of their children, Theresa and Jerome, must struggle to find their place within the community. But for Leo, their middle child, that is just
Title: Afterlife in - Plays: 4 (Michael Frayn) / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Methuen & Co 2010
Description:
roy drama - historical seven characters; extras five male; two female two acts
revised for this collection.
"Max Reinhardt, one the greatest impresarios of theatrical history, had a lifelong ambition - to dissolve the boundary between theatre and the world it portrays. Each year at the Salzburg Festival he directed a famous morality play, Everyman, about God sending Death to summon a representative of mankind for judgment. The victim he chooses is a man who, like Reinhardt,
Title: Aftermath in - American Theatre (April 2010) / PER Author: Blank, Jessica Jensen, Erik Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy drama - documentary - Iraq - war nine characters six male; three female one act
minimalist set.
With Aftermath, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, the award winning creators of The Exonerated, return to the genre of documentary theatre with a powerful exploration of the Iraq war from the perspective of everyday Iraqi citizens and how their lives changed forever the day the Americans arrived in their country. Title: ALiCE
Author: McDonough, Jerome Carroll, Lewis Publisher: I. E. Clark, Inc. 1990
Description:
roy fantasy - children large cast flexible casting one act
playing time: 25 min.
This one-act dramatization of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass is distinguished by the inventive manner with which Jerome McDonough handles Alice's various changes in size and the numerous changes of setting, with no breaks in the action. Because of his ingenious directions for making all the magical special effects easy to stage, this version is fun to
Title: Aliens, The in - American Theatre (July/August 2010) / PER Author: Baker, Annie Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy drama - music all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Two angry young men sit outside a Vermont coffee shop and discuss music and Bukowski. When a lonely high school student arrives on the scene, they decide to teach him everything they know. A play with music and shrooms.
Title: All for Love; or, The World Well Lost in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Dryden, John Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy twelve characters; extras six male; four female; two girls five acts
1 interior set.
"English Restoration tragedy. Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra done in blank verse." Title: Alone at Last! in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Barrett, GIna Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy nine characters five male; four female one act
A simple makeout session between two teenagers is complicated by the intrusion of a chorus of advice and commentary from parents, friends and other intruders.
Title: Altar Boyz - vocal selections
Author: Adler, Gary Walker, Michael Patrick Publisher: Williamson Music, Inc. 2005
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes: We are the Altar Boyz Rhythm in Me Church Rulez The Calling The Miracle Song Everybody Fits Something About You Body Mind & Soul La Vida Eternal
Title: Amahl and the Night Visitors - opera in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Menotti, Gian-Carlo Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy opera - Christmas - religious six characters; chorus; extras five male; one female one act
The libretto of the favorite Christmas opera, as beautiful to read as to hear. Title: American Hwangap in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Suh, Lloyd Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama - Korean-American five characters three male; two female eighteen scenes
running time: 90 minutes.
Min Suk Chun is turning 60, and he's back in West Texas after leaving his family almost 15 years ago. As his ex-wife and three adult children wrestle with their broken past in preparing this American hwangap (a 60th birthday ritual celebrating the completion of the Eastern zodiac), an aging Korean would-be cowboy is back at the head of the table. But before the end of the night,
Title: American Theatre (01/1/11)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2011
Description:
Title: American Theatre (03/1/10)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Description: Title: American Theatre (04/1/10)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Description:
Title: American Theatre (05/1/10)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Description:
Title: American Theatre (09/1/10)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Description: Title: American Theatre (10/1/10)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Description:
Title: American Theatre (11/1/10)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Description:
Title: American Theatre (12/1/10)
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description: Title: American Theatre Book of Monologues for Men
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2003
Description:
Since 1984, American Theatre Magazine has published more than 100 off the best new American plays by our most important playwrights. These plays, many of which were printed first in AT, provide actors with original and challenging material for their most rigorous auditions.
Title: American Theatre Book of Monologues for Women
Author: Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2003
Description:
Since 1984, American Theatre Magazine has published more than 100 off the best new American plays by our most important playwrights. These plays, many of which were printed first in AT, provide actors with original and challenging material for their most rigorous auditions.
Title: Ameriville in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: UNIVERSES Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female fifteen scenes
"UNIVERSES puts the state of the Union under a microscope — race, poverty, politics, history and government — examining our country through the lens of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Ameriville combines an innovative mix of poetry, music, movement and drama to get to the heart of this American tragedy." Title: Amorous Adventures of Anatol, The in - Still Laughing: three adaptations by Morris Panych / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Schnitzler, Arthur Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian adaptation five characters three male; one female (doubling) seven scenes
"In Schnitzler's "The Amorous Adventures of Anatol", all female characters are played by one actress, dramatizing that for Anatol, the only victim of our elaborate and conspiratorial theatrical illusion, all women are the same."
Title: Amouresque in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Gluck, Victor Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy - courtship three characters one male; two female one act
AMORESQUE and ARABESQUE are both comedies of courtship that take place during the same weekend at Margaret Hudson's country house not far from Cambridge, Massachusetts. In AMORESQUE, a young girl has fallen in love with an absent minded philosophy professor who teaches at a men's college ad who is too involved in his studies to notice her. She attempts to awaken his interest by offering him a philosophical proposition to solve Typical of his thinking, he deals with it just as he would one of his classroom cases.
Title: And Then in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Arenas, Amelia Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - monologues - women all female cast; five characters one female five scenes
The five monologues in AND THEN stem from one question: is it possible to empathize with a character who has done the unthinkable? Hanadi is a twenty-eight year old Palestinian lawyer who decides to blow herself up along with twenty-two strangers in a Haifa restaurant. Mary Kay is a sixth-grade teacher who falls madly in love with one of her students. Lynndie is a young American soldier who becomes a torturer in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Susan is a young housewife who drives her car into a lake and watchers her two children drown. Leonora is a rich, Title: And Then There Were None
Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy comedy - mystery eleven characters eight male; three female three acts
In this superlative mystery comedy statuettes of little soldier boys on the mantel of a house on an island off the coast of Devon fall to the floor and break one by one as those in the house succumb to a diabolical avenger. A nursery rhyme tells how each of the ten "soldiers" met his death until there were none. Eight guests who have never met each other or their apparently absent host and hostess are lured to the island and, along with the two house servants, marooned. A mysterious voice accuses each of having gotten away with murder and then one drops dead---poisoned. One
Title: And What Are You Going to Do for Us? Audition pieces from Canadian plays Author: Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1984
Description:
roy - Canadian - monologues
"Monologues from playwrights Bolt, Cook, Deverell, Fineberg, Freeman, French, Garneau, Gelinas, Hendry, Herbert, Lambert, Murrell, Pittman, Pollock, Reaney, Simons, Tremblay and many others."
Title: Andorra
Author: Frisch, Max translated by Michael Bullock Publisher: Eyre Methuen ltd. 1964
Description:
roy drama - anti-semitism twelve characters; extras flexible casting twelve scenes
The imaginary republic of Andorra is invaded by the totalitarian forces of 'The Blacks'. The Andorrans capitulate to the anti-semitism of the aggressor an betray Andri, the foundling son of the local schoolmaster, who has already become an outcast in their eyes. Ironically it turns out that the victim was not a Jew at all. Title: Angela's Airplane in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy children's play - airplanes - comedy large cast - narrator flexible casting (boys and girls) one act
Irene N. Watts' adaptation of Robert Munsch's "Angela's Airplane".
Angela loses her dad at the airport and inadvertently flies an airplane.
Title: Animals Out of Paper in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Joseph, Rajiv Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"When a world renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love can't be neatly arranged in this drama about finding the perfect fold."
Title: Another Country in - Another Country / bloom / CCO Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy drama - war five characters two male; three female forty-four scenes
(Originally Final Decisions [War]), this play was his response to his home country Argentina’s Dirty War in 1976–83, when leaders of the military junta held that their campaign against “leftist subversives and terrorists” was the beginning of the third world war. The scale of their undertaking was defined by their statement: “First we will kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, those who are undecided.” The public relations firm Burson-Marsteller was hired to make Title: Another Country / bloom
Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy - collection - Guillermo Verdicchia - Canadian
includes: Another Country bloom
Please see separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Another one of Louella's Killer Ideas in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Paiste, Terryl Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors all female cast; three characters three female one act
Three women hold a meeting in the church sanctuary to discuss a grand idea for memorial services.
Title: Apartment 3A
Author: Daniels, Jeff Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2000
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters four male; one female two acts
flexible set.
Reeling from the loss of what she thought was the love of her life, Annie Wilson searches for a reason to hope again with a mysterious next-door neighbor who teaches her what it truly means to be in love forever. Title: Approaching Zanzibar in - Birth and After Birth and Other Plays / COL Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy comedy - family relations thirteen characters two male; four female; two boys; one girl (doubling) two acts
"Wallace Blossom, a middle-aged composer who teaches at Juilliard, hasn't written a note in years. Charlotte, his wife, suffers from hot flashes and dreams of crying babies. Together with their colourful children, Turner, 12, and Pony, 9, they set out to drive across the country to visit Charlotte's dying aunt, a renowned artist."
Title: Arabesque in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Gluck, Victor Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy - courtship five characters two male; three female one act
AMORESQUE and ARABESQUE are both comedies of courtship that take place during the same weekend at Margaret Hudson's country house not far from Cambridge, Massachusetts. In ARABESQUE, during the same weekend, at Mrs. Hudson's, another guest is bestselling, self-styled "authoress" Audrey Liston, who writes romantic fiction. She is immediately attracted to Gerald Gardiner, a handsome, athletic scion of a leading Boston family. He, however, is pursuing a flighty, self-willed debutante, who is leading him on a merry chase.
Title: Armstrong's Last Goodnight An exercise in diplomacy Author: Arden, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 1965
Description:
roy drama - British - historical large cast mixed characters three acts
1 setting.
Based upon political intrigues and eventual demise of the Scottish freebooter, Johnny Armstrong during reign of James V, when English and Scottish diplomats were trying to secure border peace. Title: Art of Managing Your Career, The A guide for the Canadian artist and the self-employed cultural worker Author: Cultural Human Resources Council Publisher: Human Resources Development Canada 2009
Description:
Reference - business - Canadian theatre - website
The 2009 update of the career management guide for self-employment in the arts. Contains information on: The Culture Biz The Art of Self-promotion The A-Z of Project Management Money - Keeping Track You and the Law
Title: Art of Silence, The A play in one act Author: Hartley, J. S. Publisher: Arandurã Editorial 2005
Description:
roy psychological political drama - oppression - Paraguay all male cast; two characters two male one act
This play was written following a period of interview and research for a doctoral thesis on creativity and oppression; and was also based on theatre projects working with torture victims. The play is based on the experience of actor Emilio Barreto who was imprisoned without charge for thirteen years by the dictatorial regime of his country; eight years of which he spent in a single cell of 2.5 metres by 4, in which up to 12 others were imprisoned at any given time – including women and children. The play follows the different stages of resistance and acceptance,
Title: Asteroid Belt in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Feldman, Lauren Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations three characters one male; two female one act
This play reveals a college student and her parents grappling with fate's challenge of time and space. The plot takes us through that journey. Title: At Home At the Zoo
Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2008
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
flexible set.
Edward Albee delves deeper into his play THE ZOO STORY by adding a first act, HOMELIFE, which precedes Peter's fateful meeting with Jerry on a park bench in Central Park. THE ZOO STORY may be performed independently. However, HOMELIFE may only be performed as part of the full length play AT HOME AT THE ZOO.
Title: Back Where You Belong in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Battye, Susan Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - New Zealand twenty-three characters flexible casting fifteen scenes
suggested for high school.
Battye's play addresses the problems of cultural assimilation, peer group relationships in a school setting, as well as humanitarian responsibilities that are called for in modern times. The teenager Zaria, sent by her Montenegran parents to live with relatives in New Zealand, struggles to perform well in her school where institutional and peer group misunderstandings challenge her ability to
Title: Balloon Rat in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comic drama - monologue - aging all female cast; one character one female one act
Anna, a young German woman, tells us about the mysterious events that took place in her old apartment in Munich, where she lives with her little girl and a cat, when a large but demonically clever rat seems to be moving around at night among the blown up balloons left on the floor after her daughter's birthday party. In Anna's increasingly desperate efforts to discover if this rat is real or imaginary, she comes to believe that the appearance of this rat seems to be connected in some mysterious way to her own upcoming 30th birthday. A funny and touching monologue about a Title: Banana Man in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - biographical three characters two male; one female one act
A table and some chairs. In New York, in the summer of 1964, Buster Keaton appeared in a short experimental film written by Samuel Beckett. In this play, set in an Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village that summer, two gentlemen named Sam and Buster attempt to communicate with each other, with the unlikely help of a chattery young waitress with theatrical ambitions, who mistakes Buster for Moe from the Three Stooges and Sam for his agent. A funny and moving play about the quiet, absurd heroism of two apparently very different but very great artists.
Title: Banana Man & Other Plays
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy - collection - Don Nigro - one acts
includes: Balloon Rat Banana Man Barefoot in Nightgown by Candlelight Great Slave Lake Ida Lupino in the Dark Mooncalf Narragansett The Tale of the Johnson Boys Wild Turkeys
Title: Barefoot in Nightgown by Candlelight in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - horror all female cast; three characters three female one act
A dim circle of light surrounded by darkness. Three young girls, barefoot in nightgown, speak in a glow like candlelight. Cath is an orphan, sent to a girls' boarding school in the country, a big old house where she is very lonely until two of the other girls, Alicia and Belle, creep into her room one night, blow on her face to awaken her, and initiate her into a dangerous midnight game of Mistress and Slave. They deal out cards, and the one who gets the Queen of Spades is the Mistress, the Queen of Hearts the Slave, and the third girl is the Witness. The Mistress gets to Title: Beachwood Drive in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Morris, Steven Leigh Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama - slavery - prostitution six characters two male; four female two acts
"Beachwood Drive tells the story of Nadya, a Ukrainian woman brought to America and enslaved as part of a prostitution ring. In this compelling tale based on an actual police case, a single mother, Nadya becomes squeezed between her Russian Mafia protectors and the LAPD detective who arrests her in a sting operation."
Title: Beating the Bushes
Author: Bush, Steven Publisher: Talonbooks 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - politics - monologues - male - American all male cast - one character one male two acts
Steven Bush is a man on a mission—to confront the skeletons in his family closet. Did his very own cousins rule a country that, even today, after electing its fifirst African American president, still seems bent on world domination? What can he, a distant relation of the “Bushes” (so the story goes), do to end the madness and redeem the family name? Ever since the bloodless coup that felled the Republic (the controversial American election of 2000), Steven Bush has been hard at work to prove—or disprove—his blood ties to those bad Bushes in the White House. Drawing on
Title: Beaux' Stratagem, The in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Farquhar, George Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy comedy - Restoration sixteen characters; extras eleven male; five female five acts
6 interior sets; period costumes.
"Aimwell and Archer, two London beaux, who have dissipated their fortunes, go to the country as master and servant to win a country heiress. Aimwell rescues Dorinda from three highwaymen and later inherits from his brother. Archer protects Lady Bountiful and wins her after her separation from her brutal husband Squire Sullen. The names of Boniface, the inn-keeper, and Lady Bountiful Title: Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, The
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
collection - American
contains: Plays for one man and one woman: All Good Cretins Go to Heaven; The Can Can; Deja Vu All Over Again; Feeding Time at the Human House; Life Coming Up; Novices; The Pain in the Poetry; Quarks; Road Kill; A Short History of Weather; Super 8 versus Bacara Resort and Spa; The Transfiguration of Linda; Valentine's Play; A Very Very Short Play; Whistling in the Dark.
Plays for two men: Crossing the Border; Crows over Wheatfield (or The Nuance of the Leap); Fragment of a Paper Airplane; Marilyn Gets Ice Cream.
Plays for two women: Counting Rita; Critical Care; The Grand Scheme.
Title: Best American Short Plays 2006-2007, The
Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
collection - American - one acts
includes: DeBoom: Who Gives This Woman? - Mark Medoff And Then - Amelia Arenas The Cleaning - Zilvinas Jonusas Breakfast and Bed - Amy Fox The News from St. Petersburg - Rich Orloff Double Murder - Scott Klavan Running in Circles Screaming - Jeni Mahoney Witness - Peter Maloney Asteroid Belt - Lauren Feldman
Title: Best Daddy, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Silverstein, Shel Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
Presents a darkly comic encounter between a girl and her father, whose sense of humor borders on the sadistic. Title: Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, The
Author: Hall, Carol King, Larry L. Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy musical - comedy twenty-seven characters; extras thirteen male; fourteen female two acts
unit set.
Music and lyrics by Carol Hall. Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson. Based on a story by Larry L. King. There once was on the outskirts of a small Texas town an old, established whorehouse. The place was patronized by politicians, businessmen and the local football team. It was resolutely run by Miss Mona who made sure that if her "girls" weren't exactly ladies-they were
Title: Best Men's Stage Monologues and Scenes 2009, The
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
A rich and varied selection of monologues and scenes from plays that were produced and/or published in the 2008-2009 theatrical season.
Title: Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2002, The
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2003
Description:
Men's monologues. Title: Best New Playwrights 2009, The
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy - collection
includes: American Hwangap - Lloyd Suh Animals Out of Paper - Rajiv Joseph Beachwood Drive - Steven Leigh Morris Crooked - Catherine Trieschmann End Days - Deborah Zoe Laufer Farragut North - Beau Willimon Jesus Hates Me - Wayne Lemon
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Best Women's Stage Monologues and Scenes 2009, The
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
A rich and varied selection of monologues and scenes from plays that were produced and/or published in the 2008-2009 theatrical season.
Title: BFE
Author: Cho, Julia Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2006
Description:
roy young adult - comedy ten characters four male; five female (doubling) twenty-four scenes
flexible set; running time: 100 min.
Cute blondes are disappearing from her strip mall-covered suburban town, but fourteen-year-old Panny is more concerned with surviving adolescence. Raised by an unbalanced mother who thinks the perfect birthday gift is plastic surgery, and a shy uncle who spends most of his time painting miniatures, Panny is afraid she's hopelessly different. Thanks to a fortuitous misdial, she Title: Billy Twinkle Requiem for a golden boy Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - puppet play all male cast; nineteen characters one male one act
"Billy Twinkle is a suicidal cruise-ship puppeteer. Once the golden boy on the Saskatchewan puppet circuit, Billy has fallen into a compromised, commercial cul-de-sac. His spark gone, his marionettes tired and crude, and his career at sea, Billy is tempted by the oblivion beyond the ship's edge. Enter Sid, Billy's deceased mentor and boyhood hero. Revitalised as a hand-puppet apparition, Sid attempts to galvanise his wilting protégé by replaying Billy's life before him. The ensuing biopic is a bedlam of the comic, the endearing and the absurd, as the extent of Burkett's
Title: Binti's Journey in - Things That Go Bump / YCL Author: Johnson, Marcia Publisher: Signature Editions 2009
Description:
roy drama - high school - AIDS large cast flexible casting one act
After losing her home and family to AIDS and enduring separation from her siblings, 13 year-old Binti Phiri finds her way to her Grandmother’s village and discovers a deeper understanding of the power of family and community.
Title: Birth and After Birth in - Birth and After Birth and Other Plays / COL Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - marriage five characters three male; two female two acts
newly revised.
'At birthday for four-year-old son, parents try to convince childless friends to have children.' Title: Birth and After Birth and Other Plays A marriage cycle Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy - collection - Tina Howe - comedy
includes: Birth and After Birth Approaching Zanzibar One Shoe Off Rembrandt's Gift
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Birth of Theatre, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Tasca, Jules Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act
From the playwright: 'Theatre began when humanity began. It has its roots in the mimetic urges that are a part of our species. When I was a college student I was told that it is conjecture that theatre commenced with the imitation of the hunt for tribal members who, because of our youth or old age or gender, could not participate in the most dangerous and exciting activity of the primitive world. In the conceit of the play, I tried to capture, in their nescient state, the advent of what an actor feels, what a director does, and what a theatrical ensemble experiences. These
Title: Black Nativity in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Hughes, Langston Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas - religious eight characters; singers five male; two female; one flexible two acts
no sets; period: when Christ was born.
A Gospel-song play. Title: Blacks Don't Bowl
Author: Haynes, Vadney S. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - racism - censorship six characters four male; two female two acts
What do you do when your vision of the world and yourself is shaken to the core? When two Black Montreal artists create a show from images of pimps, thugs and dancehall queens, community leader Frank Simmons is outraged and tries to censor the demeaning images. What else is a man who is highly opinionated—especially about being Black and the Black experience—to do? What Frank does not count on is art’s ability to transform as he is forced to confront himself in a way that is both disturbing and revealing. Little will be the same afterwards for Frank, the artists, and
Title: Blonde, the Brunette, & the Vengeful Redhead, The
Author: Hewett, Robert Publisher: Currency Press 2007
Description:
roy comedy - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female two acts
An adulterous husband, a meddlesome neighbour and a dropped ice-cream cone are among the circumstances that combine to shatter the life of suburban housewife Rhonda Russell. Everyone has their own story to tell about the day that Rhonda went berserk in the shopping mall. And who’s to know where the truth lies? With the best friend who might have egged her on? With the husband who denies responsibility? Or with the victim’s family whose lives were changed forever? And then there’s the story of the vengeful redhead herself, but she’s probably the least likely to
Title: Bloom in - Another Country / bloom - CCO Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy drama - war seven characters five male; two female (doubling possible) one act
bloom (the title is taken from a line in Paul Celan’s poem, “Psalm”: “we bloom in thy spite”), overflows with images from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (“hooded hordes swarming over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth,” among others), and seems utterly contemporaneous with his first, in the context of the current destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, part of the larger effort of an international reorganization of the world we know as “The War on Terror.” Title: Blue Room, The A play in ten intimate acts Author: Hare, David Publisher: Grove Press, Inc.
Description:
roy drama - sex ten characters one male; one female (doubling) ten parts
Arthur Schnitzler described REIGEN, his loose series of sexual sketches, as "completely unprintable," and indeed its premier in 1921 spurred an obscenity suit. It was only when Max Ophuls made his famous film on 1950 that the work became better known as La Ronde. Now David Hare has reset these circular scenes of love and betrayal in the present day, with a cast of two actors plying a succession of characters whose sexual lives enmesh like a daisy chain. THE BLUE ROOM is a brilliant meditation on men and women, sex and social class, actors and the theatre.
Title: Blueberry Hill Accord, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Watson, Daryl Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - friendship all female cast; two characters two female one act
The conclusion of a friendship by two teenaged girls takes on the dimensions of the Geneva Convention.
Title: Body & Soul
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - women - self esteem - identity all female cast; fifteen characters fifteen female two acts
Fourteen extraordinary women from across Canada share their stories about life after forty-five in this thought-provoking play compiled by award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson. In the form of a letter written to their bodies, these women share their personal stories of triumphs, tragedies, and life’s funny moments, while challenging the reader to look beneath the surface of how society views beauty, aging, and women in their second act in life. Originally commissioned by Dove as a component of their campaign for real beauty, the fourteen women Title: Body Awareness
Author: Baker, Annie Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act
It's "Body Awareness" week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner, Joyce, are hosting one of the guest artists in their home, Frank, a painter famous for his female nude portraits. Both his presence in the home and his chosen subject instigate tension from the start. Phyllis is furious at his depictions, but Joyce is actually rather intrigued by the whole thing, even going so far as to contemplate posing for him. As Joyce and Phyllis bicker, Joyce's adult son, who may or may not have Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to express himself
Title: BOOM in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Salverson, Julie Fraser, Patti Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - drama - Canadian fifteen characters flexible casting one act
suggested for high school.
'An internationally performed play commissioned by the Canadian Red Cross as an intervention in the global struggle against land mines.'
Title: Boom
Author: Nachtrieb, Peter Sinn Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2009
Description:
roy comedy three characters one male; two female one act
"Sex to Change the Course of the World"—A grad student's online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of an evening of "no strings attached" sex. But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. Will they survive? What about the fish in the tank? And who is that woman pulling levers and playing the timpani? An epic and intimate comedy that spans over billions of years, boom explores the Title: Boy Who Lived with Bears, The in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Elter, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children eight characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
length: 15 min.; setting: the forest; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
This story was told to Sheldon Elter by an elder when he was young. He often dreamt that perhaps he was raised by bears, or at least that he should have been. As he grew up, he learned some hard lessons about excess and unnecessary things. When Concrete Theatre approached him to write a play for Sprouts, this story immediately came to mind.
Title: Breakfast and Bed in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Fox, Amy Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - homosexuality all female cast; two characters; voice two female one act
In the spirit of experimentation, a woman who considers herself straight, goes home with another woman she met at a party. She wakes up in an apartment with the mother of the woman she picked up.
Title: Brief History of Helen of Troy; or, Everything Will Be Different, A
Author: Schultz, Mark Publisher: Oberon Modern Plays 2005
Description:
roy drama - coming of age six characters four male; two female four parts
Charlotte is fifteen and grieving over the loss of her beautiful mother. Her relationship with her father is put to the test as she discovers sex, ambition and 'beauty product'. Inspired by Euripides but with its sights set firmly on contemporary America, (this play) is an unsettling and startling authentic examination of complacency culture and the politics of beauty. Title: Brig, The
Author: Brown, Kenneth H. Publisher: Methuen & Co 1963
Description:
roy drama - prisoner all male cast; fifteen characters; extras fifteen male two acts
"Deprived of all human relationships except those of obedient response to the commands of their guards and an almost tangible agony which is shared with but cannot be communicated to their fellow prisoners, the inmates act out an absurd ritual prescribed by the rules of the Brig."
Title: Brighton Beach Memoirs
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy comedy - drama seven characters three male; four female two acts
interior and exterior sets.
A portrait of the playwright as a Brooklyn teenager in 1937 living with his family in crowded, lower-middle-class circumstances. Eugene is the narrator and central character. His mind is full of fiercely fantasized dreams of baseball and dimly fantasized images of girls. The play's scenes consists of a few days in the life of his struggling Jewish family. As Eugene's father says, 'if you
Title: Brink! A Rites of Passage Anthology in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Diamond, Lydia R. Diaz, Kristoffer Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy comedy - anthology large cast flexible casting twenty scenes
Anthology by Lydia R. Diamond, Kristoffer Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Deborah Stein. "From first date to marriage, birth to death, and hiring to firing, six fabulous and funny playwrights join forces with 22 Acting Apprentices to explore rites of passage." Title: Canadian Shakespeare
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
Reference
“This book brings together much of the best critical writing to explore Canadian engagement with Shakespeare over the last twenty years. Diverse voices address a wide range of performance-related issues, including Stratford, adaptation, modernism, gender and race, and regional, queer, and First Nations Shakespeares."
Title: Canadian Theatre Review (01/3/07)
Author: Publisher: University of Toronto Press 2007
Description:
Title: Canadian Theatre Review (03/1/10)
Author: Publisher: University of Toronto Press 2010
Description: Title: Canadian Theatre Review (05/1/10)
Author: Publisher: University of Toronto Press 2010
Description:
Title: Canadian Theatre Review (07/1/10)
Author: Publisher: University of Toronto Press 2010
Description:
Title: Canadian Theatre Review (11/1/10)
Author: Publisher: University of Toronto Press 2010
Description: Title: CanPlay (01/1/05) The Periodical of the Playwrights Union of Canada Author: Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2005
Description:
Title: CanPlay (09/1/08) The Periodical of the Playwrights Union of Canada Author: Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2008
Description:
Title: Career Outlines for Cultural Occupations A guide for anyone who wants to know about a career in the arts, . . . Author: Publisher: Alberta Cultural Action Network 2004
Description:
ref - career planning
A career planning guide for careers in the creative and performing arts, music, writing and publishing, creative design and craft, arts administration, museums, libraries, motion pictures, and broadcasting. Includes career groupings, lists of related jobs and occupations, and detailed occupational profiles. Title: Carnival Magic in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Darbasie, Patricia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - Trinidad - growing up four characters two male; two female one act
setting: Rita's yard in Trinidad during Carnival; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
A play about Trinidad, the playwright's island of birth. The play is based on childhood memories and imagination: her fears about the large toads that came out at night, the infectious music that was a part of Carnival, and her wish that she could have been a bit braver growing up.
Title: Carrying the Calf in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Barrie, Shirley Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy drama - young adult - Canadian all female cast; four characters four female four scenes
suggested for high school.
"Four women of different ages and cultural backgrounds meet in a self-defence class for women. Each of the students is experiencing a from of violence in her life. After initial mistrust and misunderstandings, they help each other towards spiritual and physical strength."
Title: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1958
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters ten male; seven female three acts
1 interior set.
The sixty-fifth birthday party of a wealthy Southern man brings out the worst in his family as their greed for his wealth pits them against each other in their maneuvers for his favour. Title: Chalk Boy, The
Author: Conkel, Joshua Publisher: Original Works 2008
Description:
roy black comedy all female cast; four characters four female two acts
Beneath its boring facade there is more going on in the tiny town of Clear Creek than the opening of the new Taco Bell. Four of the town's local girls are here to take you on a tour of their funny, yet brutal reality. They struggle with faith, friendship, sex, the occult, algebra, and the disappearance of... The Chalk Boy. This is a deathly black comedy that punches as hard as your high school bully
Title: Charlotte's Web The musical Author: Robinette, Joseph White, E. B. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy musical - children fifteen characters flexible cast (doubling possible) two acts
unit set.
This exciting, new musical version of Charlotte's Web brings a new dimension to E.B. White's beloved classic. With music and lyrics by Charles Strouse and book by Joseph Robinette your audiences will thrill to a musical score which includes "Eating," Wilbur the pig's humorous yet poignant song about growing up; "Who Says We Can't Be Friends," an enchanting duet between
Title: Charlotte's Web The musical Author: Robinette, Joseph White, E. B. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy musical - children fifteen characters flexible cast (doubling possible) two acts
unit set.
This exciting, new musical version of Charlotte's Web brings a new dimension to E.B. White's beloved classic. With music and lyrics by Charles Strouse and book by Joseph Robinette your audiences will thrill to a musical score which includes "Eating," Wilbur the pig's humorous yet poignant song about growing up; "Who Says We Can't Be Friends," an enchanting duet between Title: Check Please in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Rand, Jonathan Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - dating - relationships - high school fourteen characters seven male; seven female (flexible casting) one act
Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse -- until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel?
Title: Child's Christmas in Wales, A in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Brooks, Jeremy Mitchell, Adrian Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas - musical twenty characters; extras thirteen male; seven female two acts
area staging.
Based on the classic by Dylan Thomas and adapted by Jeremy Brooks and Adrian Mitchell. Despite the fact that this is a Welsh Christmas and the music is also Welsh, Dylan Thomas has managed to universalize the very essence of Christmas as any child anywhere might perceive it. If the play has a plot it is the story of Christmas day itself, from its quiet, magical beginning full of thrilling
Title: Chocolate in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Stroppel, Frederick Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - murder two characters one male; one female one act
Presents encounters with a policeman investigating a murder and a suspect who has some very creative explanations for what seem to be obvious clues. Title: Christmas Carol: Scrooge And Marley, A in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Horovitz, Israel Dickens, Charles Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas thirty-eight characters; extras (dancers, musicians) twenty-three male; six female; six boys; three girls (doubling possible) two acts
unit set.
Israel Horovitz's adaption follows the Dickens original scrupulously but, in bringing it to life on the stage, adds elements of inventiveness and brilliant theatricality which enhance and strengthen its timeless virtues.
Title: Christmas Pageant, A in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Anonymous Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
non-roy Christmas - biblical ten characters; extras eight male; one female; one flexible five scenes
Traditional play. A ready-to-produce text drawn from the scriptures for church, school, or community.
Title: Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut in - Canadian Theatre Review 142 / PER Author: Long, James Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male twenty-two scenes
In the summer of 2005, James Long salvaged seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family's history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy for the archivist's Toy Pomeranian, Mandy. Two years later, a team of collaborators traveled in search of the origins of these books, and ran into some serious questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials. Title: Cleaning, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Jonusas, Zilvinas Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - homophobia - suicide three characters; voice one male; two female one act
The plot of THE CLEANING reveals Vlad - also called Josef K. - who receives a strange message under his door. He brings this message to an unknown place. Suddenly he is caught in a spotlight and "The Voice" starts asking him questions. The witness Leni is called. Josef K. knows Leni as well as Leni knows Josef K. She says that Josef K. should be punished because he is a homosexual. Leni's accusation triggers Josef K.'s memory. He confesses why he was not able to give Leni her biggest wish in life, a child. Leni is not convinced, but it is too late. The decision by
Title: Coffee Lace, The in - Little Boxes / COL Author: Bowen, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 1968
Description:
roy drama nine characters four male; five female two scenes
Part of 'Little Boxes' (see also 'Trevor').
"Group of elderly concert party artistes sell the body for a celebration when one dies."
Title: Collected Plays of Neil Simon v. 4, The
Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1996
Description:
collection - American - Neil Simon
includes: Lost in Yonkers Rumors Jake's Women Laughter on the 23rd floor London Suite
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Complete Plays, The
Author: Orton, Joe Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1990
Description:
collection - Joe Orton
includes: The Ruffian on the Stair Entertaining Mr. Sloane The Good and Faithful Servant Loot The Erpingham Camp Funeral Games What the Butler Saw
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Confessions in the Dark
Author: Heiss, Rolland L. Publisher: Players Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female one act
This play is about a successful writer who is returning to his home town in an endeavor to resolve some unfinished issues regarding a decision that he was forced to make years ago. The principle characters include a charming, rather rustic uncle and a former sweetheart who shares the writer's guilt.
Title: Controlling Interest in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Rawley, Wayne Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy six characters four male; two female one act
Demonstrates what can happen when adult professionals indulge their inner children. Title: Convict's Opera, The
Author: Jeffreys, Stephen Gay, John Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2008
Description:
roy musical drama - historical twenty-four characters six male; four female (doubling) two parts
Stephen Jeffreys' adaptation of John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera".
"On board a convict ship to Australia, the prisoners stage their own version of John Gay's 18th-century romp-with-songs, "The Beggar's Opera", finding it easy to identify with the villainous but charming hero, Macheath, whose repeated brushes with the law serve only to interrupt his compulsive womanizing."
Title: Copenhagen in - Plays: 4 (Michael Frayn) / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Methuen & Co 2010
Description:
roy drama - historical - physics - World War II three characters two male; one female two acts
"A fictional account of an actual event during World War II, two physicists exchange heated words and profound ideas. One man, Werner Heisenberg, seeks to harness the power of the atom for Germany’s forces. The other scientist, Niels Bohr is devastated that his native Denmark has been occupied by the Third Reich."
Tony Award winner
Title: Country Wife, The in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Wycherley, William Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy comedy - restoration seventeen characters; extras eight male; seven female five acts
representative set; period - London, Late Seventeenth Century.
In order to be trusted to be alone with other men's wives, a well-known philanderer has a rumour spread throughout London that he is now impotent due to his bout with 'french pox'. Title: Cradle Me
Author: Vinnicombe, Simon Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - family relations four characters two male; two female two parts
length: 90 min., 15 min. intermission.
"In the aftermath of an unspeakable yet avoidable tragedy, a family finds themselves torn apart by grief and turning for comfort to Daniel, the troubled teenage boy who lives next door. Having experienced their tragedy first hand, Daniel shares in their grief in a way that creates an individual bond with each member of the family. However, it is Marion, the dead boy's mother,
Title: Crooked in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Trieschmann, Catherine Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama - American all female cast; three characters three female twelve scenes
running time: 90 min.
"Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love. 'I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alcohol is not a sin.' Fourteen-year-old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi, an outsider with a twisted back and only her writing to keep her company. When she befriends the hapless
Title: Crying for Time in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Gardner, Ros Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - New Zealand seventeen characters seven male; ten female two acts
suggested for ages 13+; suggested for high school; characters ages 10 to 19.
A play about the displaced, vagabond children in the third world and their eerie counterparts in the gangs and bands of homeless, cast-off and disillusioned youth who also populate the urban jungles of the industrialized West. This play is set in a no-man's-land on the edge of a modern 'war zone'. A group of young people seek shelter in an old deserted warehouse. The story, told in Title: Cul-de-sac
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - murder all male cast; one character one male one act
A riveting show about the death of a middle-aged man in the middle of the night on a dead-end street. Leonard, the middle aged man; narrates the events leading up to his murder while trying to understand them himself.
Title: Curly Girl in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Clark, Portia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - growing up ten characters two male; two female (doubling) two scenes
length: 15 min.; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
'Curly Girl' is inspired by the playwright's own struggles with her hair, as a black child growing up in a mainly white community. On a broader theme, the play is about accepting who you are and what you look like.
Title: Curse You, Jack Dalton!
Author: Braun, Wilbur Publisher: Samuel French 1936
Description:
roy melodrama seven characters three male; four female one act
The villain threatens to have the lovely young girl committed to an insane asylum if she does not renounce the manly hero. Title: Curtains - vocal selections
Author: Kander, John Ebb, Fred Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2007
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes: Wide Open Spaces What Kind of Man Thinking of Him The Woman's Dead Show People Coffee Shop Nights I Miss the Music Thataway! He Did It
Title: Cut
Author: Monk, Ed Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2001
Description:
roy comedy fourteen characters six male; five female; three male or female one act
A group of actors rehearses a play within a play. As the plot complications multiply, the actors begin to forget who is playing whom and who is the real director - as opposed to the actor who is playing the director, or vice versa. Then they can't seem t remember who they really are, as opposed to the people they are playing in any of the various scripts. Then things start to get confusing.
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac in - The Romantic Influence / COL Author: Rostand, Edmond translated by Howard Thayer Kingsbury Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy comedy forty-six characters thirty male; sixteen female five acts
"An ugly expert swordsman, who has poetry in his soul, realizes that his looks will never win the woman he loves, so he helps his best friend win her hand." Title: Dance and the Railroad, The in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy drama - Chinese all male cast; two characters two male one act
"While on strike two Chinese railroad workers express their feeling in Chinese dance, song and playacting."
Title: Darker the Berry in - Young Blood / YCL Author: Rose, J.B. Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1998
Description:
roy young adult - comedy - Jamaica - social class eleven characters four male; six female (doubling) two acts
Set in a rich and vibrant Jamaican community, Norma and her half-sister fight, struggle to break free of their mother and escape the poverty of island life. A comic Caribbean Cinderella that explores class and racial divisions within the black community.
Title: David Copperfield
Author: Hischak, Thomas Dickens, Charles Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2005
Description:
roy drama twenty-six characters eleven male; thirteen female; one boy; one girl two acts
Thomas Hischak's adaptation of Charles Dickens' work; flexible staging; running time: approx. 2 hours.
Charles Dickens' beloved masterpiece is recreated for the stage with the unforgettable characters and enthralling story that makes the original so famous. Young David Copperfield has a happy childhood until his widowed mother weds the stern Mr. Murdstone, who separates David from his Title: Dazzle, The
Author: Greenberg, Richard Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2003
Description:
roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
In their Harlem mansion, during the early years of the twentieth century, the Collyer brothers share an eccentric life, still within reason. Langley is a concert pianist by profession but prefers his studies of the world's minutiae, all of which he considers collectible. His older brother, Homer, a former admiralty lawyer and aspiring intrigant, maintains the household and dreams of wilder times. These seem about to begin when the beautiful socialite Milly inserts herself into the Collyer ménage, bringing with her money, secrets and designs on Langley. As the first act
Title: DeBoom: Who Gives This Woman? in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Medoff, Mark Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relationships four characters two male; two female one act
The plot of DeBoom reveals Geoffrey DeBoom, defrocked film and theatre critic, teaching at the University of New Mexico film school. His estranged wife, Cassandra Rosenblum DeBoom, is a research professor 200 miles away at New Mexico State University. Cass informs Geoffrey that their daughter Maxine has just become engaged and is arriving in Las Cruces with her affianced that evening. Geoffrey flies to Las Cruces, remembering and bridling. He has a great deal of difficulty coming to grips with what he perceives as the loss of his daughter to another - and
Title: Democracy in - Plays: 4 (Michael Frayn) / COL Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Methuen & Co 2010
Description:
roy drama - historical - German politics all male cast; ten characters ten male two acts
"Frayn's play is an elegant fiction based on documented fact. It deals with the symbiotic relationship between Willy Brandt, West German chancellor from 1969 to 1974, and Gunter Guillaume, a Stasi agent who eventually became his personal assistant. We watch fascinated as Guillaume, a minor functionary with a Zelig-like gift for being in the right place at the right time, rises in the Social Democrat hierarchy to become Brandt's confessor and ultimate destroyer. The double irony is that he is enamoured of the man he betrays and that his disclosure ruins Brandt's Title: Deputy, The
Author: Hochhuth, Rolf translated by Richard and Clara Winston Publisher: Grove Press, Inc. 1964
Description:
roy drama large cast mixed cast five acts
The full, uncut text of the drama complete with the author's sidelights on history. Foreword by Dr. Albert Schweitzer. "First staged in 1963, 'The Deputy' stirred up more controversy and caused greater repercussions than any other postwar work. Based on Rolf Hochhuth's research into Vatican activities during World War II, the play's treatment of Pope Pius XII - the "deputy" of Christ on earth - and the Church during the Nazi persecution of the Jews made it the object of impassioned praise and violent denunciation. A powerful and shocking work."
Title: Destiny of Me, The A play in three acts Author: Kramer, Larry Publisher: Penguin Books 1993
Description:
roy drama - AIDS - homosexuality seven characters five male; two female three acts
sequel to "The Normal Heart".
'The Destiny of Me' focuses on Ned Weeks, a character introduced in The Normal Heart, as he checks into the National Institutes of Health to undergo an experimental treatment for AIDS. Much of his story is told in flashback, as Ned recalls growing up as Alexander in a Jewish household where, as a hardcore theatre aficionado, he imitates Cornelia Otis Skinner and Mary Martin and
Title: Devil Boys from Beyond
Author: Thomas, Buddy Elliott, Kenneth Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy comedy - science fiction spoof eight characters four male; four female (all female roles can be played by men in drag) one act
Flying Saucers! Backstabbing Bitches! Muscle Hunks and Men in Pumps! Wake up and smell the alien invasion in this outrageous comedy.
Winner - 2009 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play Title: Devil's Disciple, The in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy comedy thirteen characters ten male; three female three acts
4 interiors; 1 exterior set.
"Devil's disciple taking place of minister scheduled for hanging by Burgoyne's troops during American Revolution, is rescued by minister-turned-soldier".
Title: Disposables, The in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: Benson, Jennifer Tisi, Emily Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy young adult - Canadian large cast flexible casting seven scenes
Description not available.
Title: Domino Heart, The
Author: Edison, Matthew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female four parts
Cara's husband is killed in a car accident. Mortimer is sleepless in his hospital room. Leo is camped out in his office at Lucas, Triggs & Berkoff. In the night sky above, a helicopter carries the organ that will connect them all. Title: Don't u luv me? (40 min. version)
Author: Daugherty, Linda Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2009
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - relationships - violence nine characters four male; five female one act
area staging; running time: approx. 40 minutes.
Angela has a new boyfriend. C.J.'s romantic, amazingly handsome, and a senior. He sends her flowers. He texts her day and night. Angela's swept off her feet, but her best friend, Jen, is troubled by changes she sees in Angela. At homecoming, Angela shares a dance with her pal Duffy. When C.J., overcome with jealousy, grabs Angela's arm and roughly pulls her across the
Title: Don't u luv me? (long version)
Author: Daugherty, Linda Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2009
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - relationships - violence nine characters four male; five female one act
area staging; running time: approx. 1 hour.
Angela has a new boyfriend. C.J.'s romantic, amazingly handsome, and a senior. He sends her flowers. He texts her day and night. Angela's swept off her feet, but her best friend, Jen, is troubled by changes she sees in Angela. At homecoming, Angela shares a dance with her pal Duffy. When C.J., overcome with jealousy, grabs Angela's arm and roughly pulls her across the
Title: Double Murder in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Klavan, Scott Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
A couple is trying to poison each other but the fundamental parts of their characters get in the way. The man's diffidence, the woman's assertiveness stops them just at the point of fatal success. The reason their marriage doesn't work is the reason they can't end it. At sea, in need, they shift roles and personality traits. The confident woman gets support, the inept man gains confidence. The result is a congenial atmosphere, a brief emergence of affection. But in celebrating, drinking their health, they kill themselves. Title: Dr. Chekhov Makes a House Call in - Dramatics (April 2010) / PER Author: GeBauer, Judy Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
A short play, in which the good doctor visits a patient and possibly takes home the inspiration for a play.
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Author: Hatcher, Jeffrey Stevenson, Robert Louis Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2008
Description:
roy drama - horror twenty-one characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the novella 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
A new and shocking version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of depravity, lust, love and horror. On the fog-bound streets of Victorian-era London, Henry Jekyll's experiments with exotic "powders and tinctures" have brought forth his other self—Edward Hyde, a sensualist and villain
Title: Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops
Author: Swale, Jessica Publisher: Nick Hern Books 2009
Description:
A dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with 101 lively drama games for use in any classroom or workshop setting. The games are suitable for players of all ages, with many appropriate for children from age 6 upwards. Whilst aimed primarily at school and youth theatre groups, they are equally fun - and instructional - for adults to play. Title: Dramatics (01/1/11)
Author: Publisher: Educational Theatre Association 2011
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Description: Title: Drop in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: DeAngelis, J. Michael Barry, Pete Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy comedy - friendship all male cast; three characters three male one act
Trapped at the top of a roller coaster, two old friends ponder their existence while they await their fate.
Title: E.B.F.F. Wants You, The in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Offer, Judith Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy seniors - comedy three characters one male; one female one act
An elderly woman discovers that her sister who lives with her has signed up for what appears to be a dating service.
Title: Earring, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Van Dyke, Joyce Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
Portrays cross-cultural misunderstandings between a Russian emigre hotel maid and an American theatrical agent. Title: East End Tales in - Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors / YCL Author: Kennedy, Fin Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - contemporary - high school - young adult large cast flexible casting nine stories
A series of nine stories inspired by photos and news articles from local papers in east London. The play is suitable for performance by any group of young people with a good level of maturity. The stories range from short contemplations on the nature of east London, through to longer tales of domestic violence, the drudgery of low skilled jobs, petty crime and high-density living. Although they were inspired by east London, most can be adapted to any inner city setting. The tales are written in a heightened lyrical style and laid out in what looks like verse, the idea being
Title: Eco Show, The in - Canadian Theatre Review vol. 144 (Fall 2010) / PER Author: Brooks, Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama - environmental issues - family relations five characters three male; two female three acts
In this complex and nuanced play, ecological crisis finds expression in the daily struggles of a peculiar yet familiar household. The performance depicts domestic drama at the tipping point. The Eco show examines how the ecology of one family is changed by the ecology of the world.
Title: Editor's Choice: Audition Monologues for Men
Author: Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2006
Description:
Over 40 remarkable monologues from:
All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Ballad Hunter Black Elk Speaks Crime and Punishment Fahrenheit 451 Free Man of Color Rounding Third Sueno Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon To Kill a Mockingbird Title: Editor's Choice: Audition Monologues for Women
Author: Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2006
Description:
Over 40 remarkable monologues from:
The Abdication All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten Bondagers Boy Gets Girl Real Women Have Curves Sueno A Thousand Cranes Tom Walker Whose Life is it Anyway? Winesburg, Ohio
Title: Education of Macoloco, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Silverman, Jen Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female one act
Anessa has given her son Macoloco an arsenal of facts for every occasion, but now Macoloco must teach himself how to become an adult, and Anessa must confront the one thing she has failed to learn.
Title: End Days
Author: Laufer, Deborah Zoe Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; two female (doubling) one act
Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn't changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal relationship with Jesus. Her new neighbor, a sixteen-year-old Elvis impersonator, has fallen for her hard. And the Apocalypse is coming Wednesday. Her only hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all.
2008 American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg citation. Title: End Days in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Laufer, Deborah Zoe Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn't changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal relationship with Jesus. Her new neighbor, a sixteen-year-old Elvis impersonator, has fallen for her hard. And the Apocalypse is coming Wednesday. Her only hope is that Stephen Hawking will save them all.
Title: Enter My Goddess in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: Arangio, Carmela Jack-Vermey, Marguerite Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy young adult - Canadian all female cast; thirteen characters thirteen female one act
"The stories of 6 contemporary women struggling through life’s obstacles and the guided by the voices of their ancestors, all weaved together through beautiful movement and the resonating beat of the drum."
Title: Euripides IV
Author: Euripides Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1958
Description:
A collection of Greek tragedies by Euripides
includes: Rhesus The Suppliant Women Orestes Iphigneia in Aulis
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Exile in the Cradle in - The Theatre of Genocide / COL Author: Shirinian, Lorne Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - genocide - Armenia thirteen characters seven male; six female four acts
"The characters in 'Exile in the Cradle' are confronted with the looming threat of loss through death, assimilation, and acculturation. The play begins during the early moments of the Armenian Genocide in April 1915 then moves to the present in Toronto, where several generations of Armenians cope with the imminent break-up of their family. Faced with the forces of assimilation, some individuals willingly yield to claim their future, while others out of fear cling to a past that is becoming more and more distant. The characters choose their form of exile, either from the past
Title: Exposure Two plays Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
collection - Canadian - Greg MacArthur
includes: Snowman girls!girls!girls!
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Fables
Author: Torrens, Jackie Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
Fables is about four people looking for connection - a middle aged man numb from depression, a women encased in a body of multiple cosmetic surgeries, a young man fearful of his physical development, and a fifteen year old girl who is isolated by both a secret and the notion that biology is not her friend. Title: Family Devotions in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy drama - Chinese nine characters four male; five female two acts
"Confrontation between Chinese American family and their visiting relative from mainland China."
Title: Farragut North in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Willimon, Beau Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama - politics eight characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Stephen Bellamy is a wunderkind press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age would envy. During a tight presidential primary race, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. FARRAGUT NORTH is a timely story about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it."
Title: Faust, part 1 in - The Romantic Influence / COL Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von translated by George Madison Priest Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy tragedy - fantasy large cast flexible casting twenty-eight scenes
contains part 1 only.
Based on Faust's legend of man who sold his soul to the devil, and at long last find a way to redeem his soul. Title: Festival Voices Plays written by students and teachers for the Sears Ontario Drama Festival Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy - Canadian collection - young adult - one-acts
includes: The Disposables - Jennifer Benson, Emily Tisi, and Cassandra Van Wyck Enter My Goddess - Carmela Arangio, Marguerite Jack-Vermey et. al. How Nous Avons Met - John Anthony Nabben The Impressionist Wing - Mia Rose Yugo Leaving Hope - B.J. Castleman Pie in the Sky - Livia Berius We All Fall Down - Brenna McAllister Whitechapel - Maya Bielinski, Donald Rankin, and Charles Hoppner
Title: Fi Jee and the Two Moons in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - fable four characters two male; two female one act
length: 15 min.; setting: China; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Drawing inspiration from a Chinese fable, 'Fi Jee and the Two Moons' is a play about how the moon came to be in the sky.
Title: Five Plays by Oscar Wilde
Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Bantam Books 1972
Description:
roy - collection - Oscar Wilde
includes: Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest Salome
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Flag Day A play in two plays Author: Blessing, Lee Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2007
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - racism six characters five male; one female two one act plays
A play in two plays, FLAG DAY examines white/black relations in our society with an unblinking eye. The first play, GOOD, CLEAN FUN, is a darkly funny office comedy pitting two workers—one black, one white—against each other as they try to complete a high-pressure project. The office racism intensifies as we learn that one of them has stolen the other's wife. (2 men.) The second, DOWN AND DIRTY, evokes recent white-on-black and black-on-white killings in the American South. In a style poised carefully on the edge of absurdism, we discover a man dying in a car's
Title: Flea In Her Ear, A A new version of Georges Feydeau's farce Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2006
Description:
roy farce fifteen characters; doubling nine male; five female three acts
A FLEA IN HER EAR is the greatest of French farces, perhaps the greatest farce ever written. Raymonde Chandebise suspects that her husband, Victor, a placid and successful insurance executive, is secretly having an affair. To find out, she and her friend Lucienne write him an anonymous love letter suggesting a rendezvous at the shady Frisky Puss Hotel. Thinking the letter was intended for his coworker, the gigolo Tournel, Victor sends Tournel off to make the rendezvous in his place. Lucienne's jealous Spanish husband, meanwhile, finds the letter,
Title: Flying Wolimskies Return, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Smilow, David Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - family relationships - circus four characters three male; one female one act
Recounts the history of a less-than-successful family of circus acrobats. Title: FOB in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female two acts
1 set.
"In back room of small Chinese restaurant in California three young people interact tensely - a second generation Chinese-American youth, his female first generation cousin, and her friend from UCLA, a youth newly arrived from Hong Kong."
Title: FOB and Other Plays
Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
collection - David Henry Hwang
includes: FOB The Dance and the Railroad Family Devotions The House of Sleeping beauties The Sound of a Voice Rich Relations 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Foolish Boy, A in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Graham, Beth Vlaskalic, Daniela Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - cultures eleven characters one male; three female (doubling; flexible casting) one act
running time: 20 min.; setting: Canada; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Four people try to tell a folk tale, each from their own heritage. The result is a Canadian collision of cultures. Title: Forests
Author: Mouawad, Wajdi translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - life - self-awareness seventeen characters; extras ten male; seven female seven parts
sequel to 'Tideline' and 'Scorched'.
Forests is the third part of Wajdi Mouawad's critically acclaimed dramatic quartet set in the painful wake of the past century. As she tries to unravel the mysteries of her origins, Loup opens a door onto the abyss where the memory of her bloodline lies entangles in a sequence of impossible love affairs. But Loup is courageous: she wants to end the bitter legacy of fate and break the chain of
Title: Forty to Life in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Shengold, Nina Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six or more characters three or more male; three female one act
A woman confronts a police lineup of all the men she has ever dated, with unexpected results.
Title: Fruitcakes in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Offer, Judith S. Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy seniors - comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
A woman runs into her Heavenly Guardian while buying fruitcakes at a department store. Title: Gallows Monologue from Sidney Ryan's: "Gunpowder and Blood", The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Berger, Glen Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - monologues - male all male cast; one character one male one scene
An assistant stage manager, stricken with stage fright, is thrust into the spotlight to deliver a ghastly tale of disembowelment and worse.
Title: Geraniums in - Young Blood / YCL Author: Yeger, Sheila Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1998
Description:
roy young adult - historical drama - politics twenty characters seven male; eight female (doubling; flexible casting) two acts
Recreating London's East End in 1936 with historical accuracy, the play contrasts personal and political choices for a group of young Jewish people at the time of the battle of Cable Street with those of young people today.
Title: Getting Out
Author: Norman, Marsha Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1979
Description:
roy drama - religion - psychology twelve characters seven male; five female two acts
"Released from prison Arlene returns to a rundown apartment in Louisville, intent on starting her life over. Rebellious and disruptive as a young girl, she has found strength in religion and wants to put her youth behind her. But her struggle to find her way in the present is counterpointed by flashbacks of her past. Her two personalities are represented by two performers, who sometimes appear on stage simultaneously. We meet the guards and prison officials, the unfeeling mother, the lecherous prison guard, the ex-boyfriend and the friendly neighbour with whom Arlene is Title: Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in her Jumper, The in - Young Blood / YCL Author: Wallace, Naomi McLeod, Bruce Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1998
Description:
roy young adult - comedy eight characters five male; one female (doubling; flexible casting) one act
In this witty adventure for young audiences by MacArthur "genius" award winner Naomi Wallace, a young girl called Noil finds herself in a strange new place, and must accomplish three and a half magical tasks before she can return home. Noil is clever and resourceful, and with some assistance from a singing narrator and a talking roach, she emerges from the hole in her sweater in time for breakfast.
Title: Girls!girls!girls! in - Exposure / CCO Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - teenagers five characters one male; four female one act
Splitz 'deserved' to win. Missy 'stole' first place. Set in the cutthroat world of high school gymnastics, this play follows the Friday night exploits of four teenage chums as they seek revenge for a loss on the vaulting horse. Told in a hypnotic, rap-meets-nursery-rhymes style, this play, which takes its cue from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the Reena Virk murder and the Columbine massacre, is a brutally violent exploration of what happens when emptiness becomes the norm.
Title: Glass Knives in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Almendarez, Liliana Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations six characters three male; three female six scenes
In GLASS KNIVES, a student goes home after one semester of college. She finds it difficult tot re-acclimate to her home environment after being on her own for the first time. Daughter and family struggle to find some middle ground in order to relate to one another once again. Title: Glass Menagerie, The in - Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts (seven scenes)
1 set.
A domineering mother who only wishes for success for her two children, tries to force her son to be more ambitious and tries to use him to find gentlemen callers for his shy, crippled sister.
Title: Glow in - Theatre Centre: Plays for young people / YCL Author: Virk, Manjinder Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2003
Description:
roy young adult five characters two male; one female (doubling) twenty-two scenes
suggested for schools, colleges, and youth centres.
A pulsating, extrovert debut play about the will to fight for what you want, the desire to have some magic in life and fraught relationships with role models. Uncompromising in asking today's second and third generation Britons: 'Who are you?' - Virk's writing stings like a bee!
Title: Gorgeous: A Journey of the Body in - Theatre Centre: Plays for young people / YCL Author: Furse, Anna Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2003
Description:
roy young adult - eating disorders - body image all female cast; one character; extras one female thirteen scenes
suggested for schools, colleges, and youth centres.
A Victorian girl, Alice, moves through time and body shapes in an unflinching portrait of self-image and eating disorders in young women. In the original production this was a one-woman show but the inventive script gives many opportunities for different production styles. Title: Government Inspector, The in - Still Laughing: three adaptations by Morris Panych / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Gogol, Nikolai Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian adaptation eighteen characters twelve male; five female (doubling) four scenes
Adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's play. "Inspired by Gogol himself, who has the characters in "The Government Inspector" speak to the audience directly, Panych made the lead characters former members of an acting troupe, opening up the fourth wall of the theater."
Title: Grasses of a Thousand Colors
Author: Shawn, Wallace Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2009
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female three parts
"Grasses of a Thousand Colors" is a poetic epic that tells the story of a scientist (Ben), his wife (Cerise), and his two mistresses (Robin and Rose), as they fend for their lives in a world much like ours, yet one savagely close to extinction. Due to the scientific manipulation of the world's crops, a destructive system for which Ben is partly responsible, there is very little nourishment left to be had, except for those most privileged and connected. Despite the dying off of most of the world, these characters manage to survive, at times tasting the good life, admiring the beauties of nature,
Title: Great Monologues for Young Actors v. 3
Author: Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2008
Description:
A third volume of age-appropriate monologues, culled from plays by substantial playwrights from an international field. A concise guide to today's audition obstacles and how to overcome them. The authors have included a special section on the use of the song lyric as an exciting and useful exercise in solo work. Title: Great Sentimental Value, Big Reward in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Paiste, Terryl Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors two characters one male; one female one act
A very proper spinster returns an umbrella to an Italian restaurant owner.
Title: Great Slave Lake in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy dark comic drama - mystery four characters two male; two female one act
This long (about 35 minutes, perhaps) one-act is an unusual mystery. Two women, Gretchen and Margaret, sit on their next door front porches in a small Ohio town in the autumn of 1938 and talk about their husbands, both named Clyde, each a brother of the other woman, who have mysteriously disappeared on a fishing trip to Canada a few months earlier. As we listen to their funny, sad conversation, we see upstage the two Clydes in a row boat on Great Slave Lake, and as the play progresses, moving from one conversation to the other, we are invited to gradually put
Title: Greater Tuna
Author: Williams, Jaston Sears, Joe Publisher: Samuel French 1983
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; twenty characters two male (doubling) two acts
A play by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas' third smallest town. The long-running Off Broadway hit features two actors creating the entire population of Tuna in a tour de farce of quick change artistry, changing costumes and characterizations faster than a jack rabbit runs from a coyote. Two actors, twenty characters and a Title: Habit of Art, The
Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 2010
Description:
roy drama thirteen characters eleven male; two female two parts
"Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on
Title: Hair - vocal selections
Author: Rado, James Ragni, Gerome Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co. Inc. 1979
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes: Aquarius Donna Hashish Manchester England Abie Baby / Fourscore I'm Black / Ain't Got No Air Party Music I Got Life
Title: Hallelujah Girls, The
Author: Jones, Jessie Hope, Nicholas Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2010
Description:
roy comedy eight characters two male; six female two acts
flexible set.
Hilarity abounds when the feisty females of Eden Falls, Georgia, decide to shake up their lives. The action in this rollicking Southern comedy takes place in SPA-DEE-DAH!, the abandoned church-turned-day-spa where this group of friends gathers every Friday afternoon. After the loss of a dear friend, the women realize time is precious, and if they're going to change their lives and Title: Hard Weather Boating Party, The in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Wallace, Naomi Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male two acts
"Three men, almost strangers, meet in a hotel room to plan an ugly crime against a powerful adversary. Inspired by research on Louisville's Rubbertown neighborhood, Wallace's play explores the struggle between industrial greed and growth, and the health of the community."
Title: Harusame, the Little Bird in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Matsunaga-Turnbull, Jared Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - fable eight characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
running: 15 min.; setting: Canada; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Fable about a little bird with broken wings.
Title: Have a Heart
Author: Sherman, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Gerry is a hyperactive Jewish button importer living in a suburb of Montreal. His father Solly has been 'dumped' in an old people's home, something he refuses to let his son forget. Gerry's daughter Sarah is an adherent to Buddhism. Though he feels fine, the medical establishment tells him there's something wrong with his heart and are talking bypass. In between bouncing from waiting room to waiting room, Gerry decides he needs to finish the extravagant porch he's building which, if worse comes to worse, will be his legacy. Or a place to retire to once doctors Title: Heart of a Dog
Author: Astle, Robert Limbos, Agnes Publisher: NuAge Editions 1994
Description:
roy satirical tragicomedy all male cast; one character one male one act
Robert Astle's highly original one-man show is a dog's -eye view of Russia the Rational based on Mikhail Bulgakov's corrosive 1995 satire. What emerges is a canine chronicle of privations.
Title: Heartbreak House in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy drama - Russian ten characters six male; four female three acts
1 interior and 1 exterior set.
"At Heartbreak House a group of social parasites are assembled, among them Boss Mangan, a business executive. They discuss social and political affairs which might lead to war, as they did in 1914. A burglar intrudes and passes the hat. Bombs fall; Mangan and the burglar are the only ones killed."
Title: Hearts and Minds in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Kraar, Adam Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
In HEARTS AND MINDS, an idealistic speech teacher strives to touch the conscience of a relentlessly practical student from Russia, by getting him to empathize with other students. Teacher and student end up educating each other about what they are willing to sacrifice for their values. Title: Hedgehog and the Hare, The in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Janz, Heidi L. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - folk tale six characters two male; two female (doubling) five scenes
running time: 15 min.; setting: a living room and a field; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Adaptation of a classic German folktale that shows that it is not always the most physically gifted who wins the race.
Title: Hello and Goodbye
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Samuel French 1971
Description:
roy drama - African - family relations two characters one male; one female two acts
"A South African is visited by his sister after a long absence. He says he and Dad have been getting along, but she can't talk to him because he's asleep. Sister has really come home because she believes Dad has secreted 500 pounds somewhere in the house and she wants to make a deal with her brother. Their memories work back and forth, and the brother tries to keep passions down so that father will not be awakened. But the terrible truths of this family drama develop into an image of the disastrous plight of South Africa. Father is dead; the only inheritance they have is
Title: Henry IV: Part 1
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. 1962
Description:
roy drama - historical twenty-two characters; extras nineteen male; three female five acts
'England's Henry IV is aided in struggle against rebelling barons by formerly irresponsible son.' Includes an annotated text, extracts from the major sources, essays in criticism. Title: Here Lies Henry in - One Voice / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male one act
An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort of regular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.
Title: Heritage, Her-i-tage & Hair-i-tage in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Dawes, Adrienne Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; three characters; one voice three female one act
This play explores the relationship between hairstyle and cultural identity in a young biracial woman.
Title: Hernani in - The Romantic Influence / COL Author: Hugo, Victor translated by Linda Asher Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy tragedy - love - Spain twenty-one characters; extras eighteen male; three female five acts
3 interiors and 2 exteriors.
"Young Spanish woman betrothed to uncle loves nobleman plotting against Charles I of Spain. Verse play." "Hernani played a pivotal role in the famous battle in French literature between classicism and Romanticism. In writing the play, Hugo violated the artificial rules of classicism, including the Title: Highest Mountain, Fastest River in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Abela, Donna Salamanca Theatre Company Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - Australian large cast flexible casting ten scenes
revised edition; suggested for high school.
The play aims to evoke the refugee experiences of the Hmong people. Disconnected character journeys and stylised movement are used in order to avoid sensationalism and melodrama.
The original version won the 1992 Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Award for Drama. The
Title: Hippies and Bolsheviks in - Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gladstone, Amiel Publisher: Coach House Press 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy three characters two male; one female four scenes with an intermission
Set in that hotbed of hippie idealism, 1970s British Columbia. The young and passionate Star stumbles home from a Led Zeppelin concert with a draft dodger and sets in motion a freaky love triangle with big-time consequences. Can these young dropouts hold on to their ideals as The Establishment closes in?
Title: Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays
Author: Gladstone, Amiel Publisher: Coach House Press 2007
Description:
roy - Canadian - comedy - Amiel Gladstone
includes: The Wedding Pool Lena's Car Hippies and Bolsheviks
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Home is My Road
Author: Gibson, Florence Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - adoption - historical thirteen characters; extras four male; five female; four male or female (doubling) (doubling possible) two acts
In this compelling and emotionally-charged drama, the award-winning author of Belle examines the role of international adoption in the cultural genocide of the Roma (gypsies) of Europe. Two Canadian women trace parallel routes in Romania in 1991. Grace is desperately trying to adopt a baby while Esme is searching for her birth mother. Their lives intersect with a Roma family struggling for survival in the aftermath of the post-communist revolution.
Title: Hotel Peccadillo in - Still Laughing: three adaptations by Morris Panych / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Feydeau, Georges Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian adaptation twenty-three characters nine male; eight female (doubling) two acts
"With this adaptation of Georges Feydeau's "Hotel Peccadillo", Panych wanted to play with the notion of hypocrisy as it relates to infidelity - with the hindsight of Feydeau's death from syphilis - making the author the landlord of his own bordello to heighten the irony."
Title: House in - One Voice / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act
'House' is stand up sit down one man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge. Title: House Humans
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy all male cast, one character one male one act
"Victor's mother is possessed by the devil. His father is the saddest man in the world. His sister is in love with the dog. The one he loves does not love him... and he's got nowhere to live."
"House" is stand up sit down one man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge. "Humans" is a collection of tiny stories about longing and life.
Title: House of Sleeping Beauties, The in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy tragedy two characters one male; one female one act
Yasunari Kawabata's visits to bizarre brothel in search of material for story end tragically.
Title: How Nous Avons Met in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: Nabben, John Anthony Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - bilingual - Canadian - young adult six characters; extras three male; three female five scenes
A one-act bilingual comedy about love, language, and Canada. Title: How We Talk in South Boston in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy parody seven characters five male; two female one act
Serves up a broad parody of Boston accents and bigoted attitudes by portraying the conflicts which ensue when a Boston girl decides to marry a Yankees fan.
Title: Humana Festival 2009 The complete plays Author: Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2010
Description:
roy - collection
includes: On the Porch One Crisp Spring Morning - Alex Dremann Absalom - Zoe Kazan Roanoke - Michael Lew Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry - adapted by Marc Masterson and Adrien-Alice Hansel Under Construction- Charles L. Mee Slasher - Allison Moore 3:59am: A Drag Race for Two Actors - Marco Ramirez Ameriville - UNIVERSES
Title: I Dream Before I Take the Stand
Author: Hutton, Arlene Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2003
Description:
roy drama - sexual assault two characters one male; one female one act
A defense lawyer cross-examines a woman during her testimony in a sexual assault case -- and in doing so, horribly distorts her perfectly innocent walk in the park. Title: I Have AIDS!
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy - gay theatre - AIDS all male cast; seven characters five male (doubling) two acts
Sky Gilbert's controversial black comedy about AIDS and the gay community. "Prodon is an out-of-the-closet gay stand-up comic whose career has seen better days. His lover Vidor is an interior designer. One day Prodon tells Vidor that he has AIDS. An unflinching examination of modern AIDS politics and of the way AIDS operates not only as a disease but as a cultural force in the socio-political scene today, I HAVE AIDS! will force audiences to not only question their ideas about gay men and AIDS but will start people talking about the current state of gay romance, love
Title: Ida Lupino in the Dark in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; three characters three female one act
A sofa in a darkened room. In this very funny ten minute play, Minnie sits in a darkened room, her face illuminated by the eerie glow of snow on an unseen downstage television set, surrounded by junk assembled by her philandering artist husband, creating in her head a bizarre imaginary film, a combination of many old black and white movies with Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and believes that she herself is the film's heroine, Ida Lupino. Minnie's sisters, Sherry and Caitlin, attempting to understand the reasons for Minnie's apparent nervous breakdown, are
Title: Ideal Husband, An in - Five Plays by Oscar Wilde / COL Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Bantam Books 1972
Description:
roy comedy - English fifteen characters nine male; six female four acts
3 interiors.
"Social comedy. In 19th century England British government official's marriage as well as his career are threatened by schemes of a woman eager to regain her place in society." Title: Illustrated Theatre Production Guide
Author: Holloway, John Publisher: Focal Press 2010
Description:
This new and fully updated edition of the "Illustrated Theatre Production Guide Second Edition" is a practical guide to theatre technology. It takes a step-by-step approach to the most common and popular theatre production practices, covering important issues related to the construction of wooden, fabric, plastic, and metal scenery used on the stage. This book examines theatres and their equipment, tools and materials, and scenery construction, as well as the principles of electricity and implementation of a lighting design.
Title: Importance of Being Earnest, The in - Five Plays by Oscar Wilde / COL Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Bantam Books 1972
Description:
nonroy comedy - classics nine characters five male; four female three acts
2 interiors; 1 exterior set.
"Satirical social comedy set in England in the 1890's. The theme is an attack on earnestness, in victorian sense. After much confusion a young man discovers who he really is."
Title: Impressionist Wing, The in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: Yugo, Mia Rose Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy young adult - Canadian large cast flexible casting nine scenes
Description not available. Title: In a Dark Dark House Off-broadway edition Author: Labute, Neil Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy drama - abuse three characters two male; one female three parts
On the grounds of a private psychiatric facility, two brothers confront each other. Drew has been court-confined for observation, and he has called his older brother, Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse by a young man many summers ago. Drew's request releases barely hidden animosities between the two men: Is he using these repressed memories to save himself while smearing the name of his brother's friend? Through pain and acknowledged betrayal, the brothers come to grips with and begin to understand the legacy of abuse, both
Title: In Conclusive Woman in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Mollenkamp, Julie Rae (Pratt) Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - multimedia - monologues - women all female cast; one character (on video) one female one act
The plot takes us on a journey with award-winning artist/teacher Julie Rae through the contemporary cultural whirlwind of relationships and power, women and men, subject and object, love and chaos, as she reveals the life of a sexual survivor, fat chick, momma's child, beloved teacher, abandoned wife, failed mother, surgical crash test dummy, fabulous post-forty party girl, and twenty-first-century semi-wise woman.
Title: In Juliet's Garden
Author: McDonald, Judy Elliot Publisher: Baker's Plays 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Shakespeare - high school all female cast; seven characters (one male optional); seven female one act
Juliet Capulet invites four other heroines of Shakespeare’s classics (Katharina, Portia, Ophelia and Desdemona) to lunch in her favorite garden in Verona to discuss ‘issues’ they all have with their plots. All the ladies have suggestions how these issues might be remedied. Shakespeare has also been invited, but instead sends an envoy, his literary agent and editor Jacqueline de Boys, who attempts to save the day with the help of Juliet’s Nurse. This lively fifty-minute one-act comedy sparkles with wit and an in-depth understanding of the characters of these indelible ladies, and Title: In the Beginning in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
part of "Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch" which consists of a preface, "An Infidel Half Century" and a series of five plays: In the Beginning, The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas, The Thing Happens, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman, and As Far as Thought Can Reach.
"Back to Methuselah" is Shaw's depiction of man's growing extension of his control over mortal life and what that generates. This first play in the series starts with Adam and Eve in the garden of
Title: In the Heights - vocal selections
Author: Miranda, Lin-Manuel Publisher: Williamson Music, Inc. 2008
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical. Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
contains: In the Heights Breathe It Won't Be Long Now Inutil No Me Diga 96,000 Paciencia Y Fe When You're Home Piragua
Title: In the Next Room; or, The Vibrator Play
Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy comedy - women - sex - sexuality seven characters three male; four female two acts
A play about sex, intimacy, and equality, set in the 1880s, when enthusiasm for the electric light bulb gave rise to a handy new instrument to treat female hysteria. The story revolves around the medical office and home of Dr. Givings, who regularly induces “paroxysm” in his once high-strung patient Sabrina, allowing her to happily return to playing piano. Title: In This World in - Things That Go Bump / YCL Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Signature Editions 2009
Description:
roy drama - high school - relationships all female cast; two characters two female one act⌦ ⌦ ⌦Bijou, a pretty blonde from a privileged background, and Neyssa the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant family, wait in detention after getting into a vicious fight at school. As the girls confront each other about what happened, they realize that a deeper tragedy lies between them. Ultimately, they are forced to choose between doing what they were taught was right and making a choice that could have lasting consequences.
Title: Innocence Lost A play about Steven Truscott Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - crime ten characters four male; six female two acts
"Based on the true story of 14 year old Steven Truscott's conviction and subsequent acquittal in the murder of his classmate Lynne Harper. Commissioned by the Blyth Festival for the 2008 season. "Playwright, Beverley Cooper, tackles this delicate subject with great sensitivity to the past, present and future, as she explores the far reaching effects of crime and punishment. A sold out hit for the Blyth Festival."
Title: Interview with Dan Cupid in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Malnik, Ruth Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors two characters one male; one male or one female one scene
An interview with Cupid, who tries to justify his matches from over the centuries. Title: Iphigenia in Aulis in - Euripides IV / COL Author: Euripides translated by Charles R. Walker Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1958
Description:
roy tragedy - Euripides seven characters; extras five male; two female one act
1 exterior.
"Greek classical tragedy. Based on legend of sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, to help Greek cause in Trojan War. Verse play."
Title: Isn't it Romantic
Author: Wasserstein, Wendy Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1985
Description:
roy comedy eight characters; recorded voices four male; four female two acts
The play deals with the post-college careers (and dilemmas) of two former classmates, a short, slightly plump would-be writer named Janie Blumberg, and her tall, thin gorgeous WASP friend, Harriet Cornwall. Both are struggling to escape from lingering parental domination and to establish their own lives and identities. In Janie's case this leads to an inconclusive involvement with a young Jewish doctor who calls her "Monkey"; while Harriet assails the world of big business and has an affair with her hard-driving (and married) boss. Told in a fast-moving series
Title: It Just Stopped in - It Just Stopped / Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and.. / COL Author: Sewell, Stephen Publisher: Currency Press 2007
Description:
roy satire four characters two male; two female two acts
This savage comedy of manners explores our relationship to art, globalisation, death, technology, America, Campari, cardboard boxes and slavery. Sewell's play is funny and shocking in turn. It holds the mirror up to the things we value today and asks the questions - what will we value the day the world just stops, and what would we be willing to trade for our own survival? Title: It Just Stopped / Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and ... Two plays by Stephen Sewell Author: Sewell, Stephen Publisher: Currency Press 2007
Description:
collection - full length - Stephen Sewell
includes: It Just Stopped Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America: a drama in thirty scenes
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Jake's Women in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon v. 4 / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1996
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations - relationships eight characters; extras one male; seven female two acts
"America's premier playwright makes another hilarious foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life, past and present. The wildly comic and sometimes moving flashbacks played in is mind are interrupted by visualizations from actual females. Jake's women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in an automobile accident, his daughter who is recalled as a child but is now a young woman, his boisterous and
Title: Jason
Author: Wylie, Betty Jane Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1997
Description:
roy drama - monologues all male cast; one character one male one act
Jason is a mentally challenged young man applying for permission to rent an apartment in subsidized housing. He is being interviewed. (The audience is his "jury"). While answering questions he reveals more of himself than is expected. Title: Jesus Hates Me in - The Best New Playwrights 2009 / COL Author: Lemon, Wayne Publisher: Smith and Kraus 2009
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
"Search for meaning by twenty-somethings beneath a Jesus mannequin on the New Testament themed Blood of the Lamb Miniature Golf course."
Title: Joke, The
Author: Marks, Sam Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
It’s 1965 and two comedians, “Steady Eddie” & “Doug the Mug,” knock ‘em dead every night in the Catskills. Punchlines and cheap shots fly -- on stage and off -- as Doug and Ed battle for the spotlight over a decade, pushing each other to the cusp of a new direction of stand up comedy. With their personal and professional lives uncovered at center stage, Eddie and Doug must find a way to laugh it off while staying at the top of their game. Sam Marks’ THE JOKE takes a look at the friendship and the rivalry between two comic partners during the golden years of the Borscht Belt.
Title: Just Knots in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Gorman, Christina Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy two characters one male; one female one act
An awkward store clerk who sells ‘just knots’ finds his skills—and his principles—put to the test by a disarming young woman in a ladybug scarf. Title: Kafka's Dick
Author: Bennett, Alan Publisher: Faber and Faber 1987
Description:
roy comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
2 interiors.
"Franz Kafka, his parents, and Max Brod visit home of besotted British insurance agent in contemporary England."
Title: Kazan on Directing
Author: Kazan, Elia Publisher: Vintage Books 2009
Description:
This remarkable volume, drawn from his notebooks, letters, interviews, and autobiography reveals Kazan's method: how he uncovered the "spine" or core, of each script; how he analyzed each piece in terms of his own experience; and how he determined the specifics of his production, from casting and costuming to set design and cinematography. In the final section, "The Pleasures of Direction" - written during Kazan's final years - he is the wise voice of experience offering advice for budding artists, writers, actors and directors.
Title: Knuckle
Author: Hare, David Publisher: Faber and Faber 1978
Description:
roy drama - history seven characters; extras five male; two female two acts (parts)
'Philosophical mystery examining societal corruption. Arms dealing soldier of fortune returns to England to investigate possible suicide or murder of idealistic sister and possible guilt of banker father.' Title: Kringle's Window in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Medoff, Mark Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas - family relations twelve characters three male; two female; three boys; four girls (flexible casting) two acts
suggested for high school.
Becka, age twelve, and Boomer, age eight, are sisters whose parents are in the middle of a trial separation at Christmas time. While taking her sister to the mall to see Santa, Becka is goaded by her hacker friends into telling Boomer that there is no Santa. While their parents try to deal with the fallout, the magical and mysterious Mrs. Rosen, comes into everyone's lives and begins to
Title: Ladies at Lunch in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Woods, Carol Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors eight characters; possible extras one male; six female; one male or female one act
A group of ladies meet for lunch and discuss mammograms, medication and all sorts of topics.
Title: Lady Windermere's Fan in - Five Plays by Oscar Wilde / COL Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Bantam Books 1972
Description:
roy comedy ten characters four male; six female four acts
3 interior sets.
Comedy of manners. A woman returns to English society twenty years after having left it in disgrace. In spite of her desire to be re-established in the social circles, she willingly compromises herself to keep her daughter who does not know the woman is her mother, from making the same foolish mistake as herself. Title: Last of the Boys
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2008
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - war - Vietnam - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
Ben and Jeeter fought in Vietnam, and for thirty years they have remained united by a war that divided the nation. Joined by Jeeter's new girlfriend and her off-the-grid whiskey-drinking mother, these friends gather at Ben's remote trailer for one final hurrah. As the night deepens, the past makes a return appearance, and its many ghosts come flickering to life. This is a fierce, funny, haunted play about a friendship that ends—and a war that does not.
Title: Laugh Lines Short Comic Plays Author: Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy - collection - comedy
includes: Miss You - David Auburn Your Mother's Butt - Alan Ball Alone at Last! - Gina Barnett The Gallows Monologue from Sidney Ryan's Gunpowder and Blood - Glen Berger Poodles - David Cale Ties that Bind - Eric Coble Mistaken Identity - Sharon E. Cooper Outsourced - Laura Shaine Cunningham Heritage, Her-i-tage, & Hair-i-tage - Adrienne Dawes
Title: Laughter on the 23rd Floor in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon v.4 / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1996
Description:
roy comedy - television eleven characters nine male; two female two acts
Playwright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early '50s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's fabled television series 'Your Show of Shows', and this comedy (adapted by Simon from his play) takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of television's golden age. Max Prince is the star of The Max Prince Show, a popular comedy-variety series with ratings that have begun to slip; Prince's show is still a major hit on the East Coast, but network executive Cal Weebs insists that it's too sophisticated for the Midwest, and urges Prince Title: Laundry and Bourbon
Author: McLure, James Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1981
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; three characters three female one act
1 exterior set.
'Three small town women discuss their lives and marriages which have not been all they have hoped for.'
Title: Learning the Game in - Things That Go Bump / YCL Author: Salkeld, Janice Publisher: Signature Editions 2009
Description:
roy drama - learning disabilities - hockey - women - monologues all female cast; eight characters one female one act
Meet Lanni, teenage female hockey player - with a secret, she has a learning disability. One the ice, Lanni is cool, calm and in control, but when she steps into the classroom, number 23 just can't keep up. Will her secret get out? A six character, one-woman play where life is as unpredictable as a hockey game - at the disadvantage.
Title: Leaving Hope in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: Castleman, B. J. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy young adult - Canadian five characters three male; two female five scenes
Description not available. Title: Lena's Car in - Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gladstone, Amiel Publisher: Coach House Press 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - marriage all female cast; one character one female one act
A woman whose marriage is on the verge of collapse reflects on how it got to that point, harkening back to a youth when things were both more simple and more complicated.
Awarded the Sydney Risk Award for Outstanding Original Script at the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.
Title: Let It Begin With Me and You in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: McIntyre, Betty Sanders, Nell Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors - recycling all female cast; seven characters; voice; choir seven female one act
Two women meet at a garbage dump.
Title: Letters to a Young Actor A universal guide to performance Author: Brustein, Robert Publisher: Basic Books 2005
Description:
Reference - acting
"This smart, no-nonsense primer-cum-directive on the art and science of acting comes stocked with information and peppered with anecdotes that will inspire the ambitious actor, despite the daunting nature of Brustein's curricula. Brustein, founder and director of the Yale Repertory Theatre and Harvard's American Repertory Theatre, is no lightweight, and this book may come as a shock to those who think acting is something innate and easy. Drawing on his 40-plus years of experience as an actor, director and dramaturge, Brustein explores what makes a good actor. Talent is essential, but insight, knowledge, reading, researching and a host of other explorations of both the human psyche and the history of literature and theater are necessary for an actor to have the range of some of Brustein's former students (Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Walken among them). Get a good liberal arts education, Brustein tells aspiring actors. Title: Letters to My Grandma in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - India - Canada - social issues - immigrants all female cast; five characters one female (doubling) thirteen scenes
"In the haunting "Letters to My Grandma", Malobee unearths letters detailing her grandmother’s fight to survive the 1947 partition of India, which resonates with Malobee’s own struggles to create a new life in present-day Toronto. A grand multi-generational tale of hatred, regret, love, and forgiveness, "Letters to my Grandma" weaves the remarkable stories of these two women together, inextricably linking their histories and delving into how the hatred bred between Hindus and Muslims in the Old World consumes families in Canada today."
Title: Lilford Mill in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Duffield, Neil Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - Irish - World War I five characters three male; two female two acts
suggested for high school.
"Using as a backdrop the transfer of 2000 German prisoners from detention in a barracks in Templemore, County Tipperary, to a disused mill in Lancashire early in World War 1, the play concerns itself with the complex triangle of political relations between Ireland, Britain and Germany at that time – and how those relationships affected the lives of ordinary people from all
Title: Listen to your Parents in - Theatre Centre: Plays for young people / YCL Author: Zephaniah, Benjamin Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2003
Description:
roy young adult - drama - teenage life four characters; extras three male; one female fourteen scenes
suggested for schools, colleges, and youth centres.
Set against the backdrop of domestic violence, this portrayal of teenage life and ambition is deeply moving. Zephaniah's poetry imbues the piece with rhythm and flavour. Religion, patriarchy and the sense of being a refugee, even at home, are the unsettling themes running through the play. Title: Little Boxes
Author: Bowen, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 1968
Description:
roy - collection - John Bowen - one act
includes: The Coffee Lace Trevor
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Little Brother: Little Sister in - Little Brother: Little Sister / Out of the Frying Pan / COL Author: Campton, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1966
Description:
roy drama - science fiction three characters two male; one female or one male; two female one act
In the deep shelter where they escaped from the last spasm of global destruction, Sir and Madam (a teenage brother and sister) experiment with the first gropings of love, while Cook, their aged family servant and symbol of timeless authority, snores in her chair. Awakening suddenly she orders them apart, threatening to grind them up for "rissoles" if they don't behave. But the feelings stirring within them cannot be imprisoned indefinitely. When Cook falls asleep again Sir and Madam resolve to find the door leading outside, away from the restrictions of a life imposed by
Title: Little Brother: Little Sister / Out of the Flying Pan
Author: Campton, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1966
Description:
roy - collection - David Campton - one acts
includes: Little Brother: Little Sister Out of the Flying Pan
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Little Monster's Journal, A in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Marinelli, Claudia Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - Italian all female cast; one character one female one act
suggested for high school.
This solo performance piece for a young actress was originally written as a short story and later adapted by the author for the stage. On the surface, it seems a satirical piece that is deeply suspicious of American youth pop culture, but upon closer examination the play can be seen to direct its sharpest criticism at universal attitudes of cultural discrimination that are widespread
Title: London Suite in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon v.4 / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1996
Description:
roy comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female two acts
"Comedies set in a deluxe, discreet London hotel - a sedate place until these characters check in. First, in 'Settling Accounts' the hotel suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long-time business manager, caught abscoming to Buenos Aires with he writer's money, at gunpoint. An American widow and her daughter, in England to buy shoes, take over the suite in 'Going Home'. The hotel guest in 'The Man on the Floor' are a married couple from New York who have lost their tickets to Wimbledon and are about to lose their suite to Kevin Costner
Title: Long Christmas Dinner, The in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Wilder, Thornton Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas eleven characters; extras five male; six female one act
Ninety years of an American family's Christmas gatherings. Title: Look at Me in - Theatre Centre: Plays for young people / YCL Author: Reynolds, Anna Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2003
Description:
roy young adult - teenage life eight characters four male; three female (doubling) twenty-six scenes
suggested for schools, colleges, and youth centres.
A highly sophisticated stage technique allows Reynolds to tell the stories of two young women facing exclusion from mainstream education. Gritty, hard, witty and fast paced, the play will test actors and directors of every generation.
Title: Lost in Yonkers in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon v.4 / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1996
Description:
roy drama seven characters four male; three female two acts
"Lost in Yonkers" is Neil Simon's moving drama about the cruelties and painful memories that scar a family. It is New York, 1942. After the death of their mother, two young brothers are sent to stay with their formidable grandmother for the longest ten months of their lives. For grandmother Kurnitz is a one-woman German front - a refugee and a widow who has steeled her heart against the world. But it is Bella's hunger for affection and her refusal to be denied love that saves the boys - and that leads to an unforgettable, wrenching confrontation with her mother.
Title: Love Child
Author: Murray-Smith, Joanna Publisher: Currency Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - women - identity all female cast; two characters two female one act
A reconciliation between a mother and the daughter she gave away at birth. Anna defines herself through her political conscience and she believes she has come to terms with her history until a young woman arrives at her door. Title: Love Loves a Pornographer
Author: Goode, Jeff Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2008
Description:
roy comedy - sexuality seven characters four male; three female two acts
A deeply silly, thoroughly enjoyable period satire on sexual hypocrisy.
Title: Lucy
Author: Atkins, Damian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - autism five characters two male; three female two acts
"Lucy is 13 years old; Lucy is autistic. She sees her mother for the first time in years when her father decides to re-marry and start a new life. Lucy is a play about newfound love between a mother and daughter and the revelations it triggers, including a provocative new theory of evolution."
Title: MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas
Author: MacDonald, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - families four characters two male; two female two acts
The MacGregor family patriarch has passed away, but the ground in their desolate prairie town is frozen solid, making it impossible to bury him. In a sudden desperate attempt to make things right, son Jack hijacks the body—coffin and all—up to his attic bedroom and holds his dead father hostage, keeping him cool with containers of their unique homemade ice cream. His mother, Marlene, has taken to pacing in circles in the basement, while his older brother is obsessed with fixing a sign for gas that they never sell. Into all of this walks Missy – gone for sixteen years, and Title: Madonna Painter, The
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 2010
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian seven characters three male; four female twelve tableaux
At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four local women all named Mary, a model for his work. The presence of the foreign artist, his choice of a local virgin to serve as a model, and the frighteningly strange nature of his work will upset the lives and change the fate of
Title: Make Mine Metamucil
Author: Silverbrand, Dave Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 2009
Description:
roy comedy - seniors ten characters four male; five female; one male or female two acts
The story about Gladys who dreams of celebrity in Hollywood and on Broadway. To fulfill her fantasy, she decides to write a play and enter it in a national contest. She is encouraged by an old actor friend who dreams of a comeback and her exercise instructor who sees this as a chance to fulfill his own show business fantasies. The competition turns out to ⌦be a scam. This play captures the heart and humor of growing older. It combines laughter, sentiment, and intrigue to make a great theatre experience.
Title: Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter, The in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Etherege, George Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy Restoration comedy eleven characters; extras five male; six female five acts
4 interior and 2 exterior sets; singing, music and dancing.
"Plotless comedy of manners of London society's love affairs, introducing Sir Fopling Flutter, the epitome of foppery". Title: Maria Kizito in - The Theatre of Genocide / COL Author: Ehn, Erik Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - genocide - Rwanda ten characters one male; nine female eleven scenes
" 'Maria Kizito' is based on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and is the result of the playwright's research in that Central African country."
Title: Mars Has Never Been This Close in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Leight, Warren Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - prejudice all male cast; five characters five male one act
Places a group of outsiders, by race and sexual preference, at a very proper Connecticut wedding.
Title: Mary Stuart in - The Romantic Influence / COL Author: Schiller, Friedrich Goldstone, Jean Stock Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy drama seventeen characters twelve male; five female two acts
representative set; period - England, 1586-87.
Jean Stock Goldstone and John Reich's play 'Mary Stuart' - derived from Friedrich Schiller's play by the same name. Indecisiveness on the part of Elizabeth I regarding her imprisoned sister Mary Stuart culminates in Elizabeth signing the execution warrant in a rage only to regret the deed too late. Title: Mary's Wedding
Author: Massicote, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - romance - war two characters one male; one female one act
A bewitching love story in which two young lovers, torn apart by the chaos of World War I, find that love is stronger than time. This breathtaking tale lingers like a half-remembered dream.
Title: Marzooq, the Lucky One in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Haroun, Mark Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - folk tale eight characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
running time: 15 min.; setting: Egypt; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
A lighthearted folk tale told to the playwright by his Egyptian father.
Title: Match Girl's Gift: A Christmas Story, The in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Gollobin, Laurie Brooks Andersen, Hans Christian Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas six characters three male; three female one act
A new play suggested by an old tale of Hans Christian Andersen about the spirit of giving. Title: Mating Game, The
Author: Hawdon, Robin Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
Now updated, here is a sparkling and hilarious remake of the comedy that has played around the world since its hit premiere in London. Set in a smart Mayfair apartment full of gadgets with minds of their own, the comedy zeros in on a trendy television personality whose romantic interludes are always interrupted by accidents, fate or his own incompetence. His bedroom fiascos are especially remarkable in light of his reputation as a notorious stud.
Title: Me, Myself & I in - American Theatre (Dec. 2010) / PER Author: Albee, Edward Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy dark comedy - childhood - parenting - identity - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
Mother can't tell her identical twins apart. But when Otto announces his brother doesn't exist, the household descends into chaos.
Title: Medicare Affaire, A in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Edwards, Pat Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy seniors - comedy two characters one male; one female two scenes
A woman helps her neighbor resume relations with his wife. Title: Medici Slot Machine
Author: Brownell, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - biography - Joseph Cornell five characters three male; two female two acts
Medici Slot Machine is a highly theatrical and surrealistic look at the life of American artist Joseph Cornell. Cornell, who is famous for his collage boxes of dime-store objects, excelled at turning the ordinary into the sacred. In real life, Joseph Cornell was a recluse who used his art to escape his family, his sterile suburban life, and his own psychological demons. Bringing precise order to his art was a way of triumphing over the chaos of his private life. This play chronicles that triumph while exploring the meaning of.
Title: Merry Christmas Caper
Author: Oklahoma, D. K. Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 2008
Description:
roy Christmas - seniors - senior adult theatre nine characters; extras (two young adults; one male, one female) four male; five female one act (two acts optional)
running time: 60 min.
"Someone has broken into the Senior Center and stolen all the food for the holiday Meals on Wheels, including 23 canned hams. Two homeless runaways are discovered hiding in the Center’s attic and the Sewing Circle ladies are drawn into a potentially dangerous plan to shelter them over the holiday. Can they do all this and still finish their teddy bear project on time? And what if the
Title: Metal Children, The
Author: Rapp, Adam Publisher: Faber and Faber 2010
Description:
roy drama - morality fourteen characters seven male; seven female four parts
In small town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. When the novel's directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book, he finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways. A timely and unforgettable drama about the failure of urban and heartland America to understand each other, (this play) explores what happens when fiction becomes a matter of life and death. Title: Millicent and the Wind in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - children large cast flexible casting (boys and girls) one act
adapted for the stage by Irene N. Watts.
Millicent befriends the wind who helps her find someone to play with.
Title: Miracle on 34th Street A play from the novel by Valentine Davies Author: Snyder, Patricia Di Benedetto Severin, Will Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy Christmas - classic - comedy with music large cast ten male; ten female; ten children (doubling) two acts
internal and external set.
Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder, Will Severin, and John Vreeke's adaptation of Valentine Davies' novel. Kris Kringle is the personification of good will and holiday spirit. As Macy's holiday Santa, he enchants children and shoppers so completely that he is deemed dangerous by fellow employees who question his competency and plot to ruin him. A small girl's belief in Santa and the magic of
Title: Miss You in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Auburn, David Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
Two couples rearrange via call-waiting. Title: Missing Persons in - Prelude to a Kiss and other plays / COL Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations seven characters four male; three female two acts
Independently wealthy, a published author and tenured professor at Swarthmore College, Addie Pencke spends Thanksgiving holiday struggling to hold together her splintered ego and her fractured family. Her capacious, book-lined home is peopled with real and imagined figures from sixty years of political activism, hard-drinking, a failed marriage and lost opportunities. Neighbors, strays, in-laws, children as they once were and as they could never be, remembered selves, all inhabit Addie's home for the holidays. In shifting power struggles, the critic attempts to
Title: Mistaken Identity in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Cooper, Sharon E. Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
Set in a pub in Leicester, England, a Hindu lesbian and a disarmingly clueless American discuss their needs and desires.
Title: Mixed MeSSages in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Pasternack, Mike Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - World War II all male cast; fourteen characters fourteen male one act
The plot takes place in World War II, during the Battle of the Bulge, with an American soldier having a series of particularly bad experiences. He is wounded, left for dead, and then almost executed by his own countrymen. Later, he finds himself in the middle of the infamous Malmedy massacre, but survives and seeks refuge in a farmhouse. While there, he is treated by a German medic in the SS. The two men soon learn they have more in common than one might first believe. Title: Modern Technology in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Fogerson, Barbara Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors one character; one voice one male voice; one female skit
A woman outwits the animal control department's annoying automated answering machine.
Title: Monster Under the Bed, The
Author: Dyer, Kevin Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy - children - friendship ten characters four male; one female (doubling) two acts
Imagine swapping places with a monster for the day... Ben has a big problem. His best friend Vince has stolen his precious binoculars, his Dad is far, far away...oh, and there's a monster under his bed. The Monster under the Bed is a comic and thrilling new play about friendship, and facing up to your fears.
Title: Moon over Buffalo
Author: Ludwig, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 1996
Description:
roy farce - theatre eight characters four male; four female two acts
Farce about show business set in 1953. Husband-and-wife acting team in third-rate theatrical company yearn for Hollywood careers. Title: Mooncalf in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy dark comic drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
Rebecca, a woman in her seventies, is writing a letter to her son, Ben, although she speaks the letter to the audience. She tells him the increasingly grotesque and horrible story of the very cold night in which her cow gave birth to a calf, but because her husband Clarence says he won't go out in the cold for a cow, the calf freezes to death, and they are forced to engage in increasingly unhappy efforts to get the weak cow back into the barn. But the cow keeps staggering back out to be with the frozen calf, until Clarence, in a rage, goes out to shoot it. But the silver lining, says
Title: More Scenes and Monologs from the Best New Plays
Author: Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2007
Description:
A book of selected dialogs and monologs from the best professionally produced plays.
Title: Mortimer in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - children large cast flexible casting (boys and girls) one act
adapted for the stage by Irene N. Watts.
Mortimer makes too much noise. Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: Shakespeare, William Publisher: Washington Square Press 1995
Description:
roy comedy fifteen characters eleven male;two female five acts
"One of Shakespeare's more popular comedies. Much of its appeal lies in its two stories of romantic love with their quite different journeys to comedy' s happy ending."
Title: Mud Puddle in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy four characters two girls; two boys or girls one act
adapted for the stage by Irene N. Watts.
Julie Ann gets attacked by a mud puddle everytime she goes out with clean clothes.
Title: Munsch at Play Eight stage adaptations for young performers Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy - collection - Robert Munsch - children's plays - adapted by Irene N. Watts
includes: Angela's Airplane Stephanie's Ponytail Mortimer 50 Below Zero Mud Puddle Millicent and the Wind Murmel, Murmel, Murmel The Paper Bag Princess Title: Murdered to Death
Author: Gordon, Peter Publisher: Joseph Weinberger Plays 2003
Description:
roy comedy - murder mystery ten characters five male; five female two acts
This hilarious spoof of the best of the Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930's, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight - Bunting the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French at dealer and his moll; the bumbling police inspector and a well meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes - they're all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn't finished yet,
Title: Murmel, Murmel, Murmel in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - children large cast flexible casting (boys and girls) one act
adapted for the stage by Irene N. Watts.
Robin hears a mysterious voice coming from her sandbox and discovers a baby. Now, what to do with a baby.....?
Title: Mutiny in Crazyland: A Play for Little and Old Children in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Buljan, Mirjana translated by Nina Antoljak and Mirjana Buljan Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - musical play - Croatian nineteen characters eleven male; eight female thirteen scenes
suggested for ages 10+.
As the 'generation gap' continues to widen between adult and youth culture, the play touches on the generational conflict over the values embedded in themes such as buying and selling in today's society, the obsession with technology and the influence of pop media. Title: My Fellow Creatures
Author: Rubenfeld, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act
Two men, each serving time for the same crime, are forced to question the nature of their desires when their pasts become their present. Venturing into dark and explosive territory, My Fellow Creatures is a raw, honest and thoughtful portrayal of these men and their virtues, confronting the reader with difficult questions about love, consent, vengeance and acceptance.
Title: My First Time
Author: Davenport, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - sex four characters two male; two female one act
MY FIRST TIME features four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people. In 1998, a decade before blogging began, a website was created that allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their 'First Times'. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe that were silly, sweet, absurd, funny, heterosexual, homosexual, shy, sexy and everything in between. And now, these true stories and all of the unique characters in them are brought to
Title: Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America in - It Just Stopped / Myth Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and.. / COL Author: Sewell, Stephen Publisher: Currency Press 2007
Description:
roy thriller - drama - politics eleven characters; extras five male; four female; two male or two female two acts
This tough political thriller, based in the Liberal Arts department of New York University, is no play for the timid. But its violent language and extreme brutality, brilliantly choreographed, are essential elements for an enthralling study of a polarised world turned back-to-front - a Kafka-esque nightmare of state terrorism condoned by liberty lovers in defence of the Land of the Free. Title: Narnia
Author: Tasca, Jules Drachman, Ted Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1987
Description:
roy drama - musical - children sixteen characters; extras ten male; six female two acts
'The first and most famous story of the Narnia Chronicles has become a musical presentation of this unique, enchanted world filled with creatures and spirits of myth and fable, both good and evil, demonic and transcendent. The principle inhabitants, however, are the intelligent talking animals ruled by the majestic King Aslan, the Great Lion of Narnia. Though Aslan is often absent from the land, he returns when the need for his is greatest.'
Title: Narnia
Author: Tasca, Jules Drachman, Ted Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1987
Description:
roy drama - musical - children sixteen characters; extras ten male; six female two acts
'The first and most famous story of the Narnia Chronicles has become a musical presentation of this unique, enchanted world filled with creatures and spirits of myth and fable, both good and evil, demonic and transcendent. The principle inhabitants, however, are the intelligent talking animals ruled by the majestic King Aslan, the Great Lion of Narnia. Though Aslan is often absent from the land, he returns when the need for his is greatest.'
Title: Narragansett in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act
In the year 1874, Ada looks over the rail of a boat in Narragansett Bay and tries to make sense of her life, obsessively returning in her mind to her experiences twenty years earlier, when she was governess for the children of Nathaniel Hawthorne on a trip to Italy. Memories of her love for their beautiful but doomed daughter Una, their demonic son Julian, and of a monstrous hairy creature like a huge badger that keeps crawling in her window at night, mix with eerie recollections of the ruins of Rome as she attempts to prepare herself for the cold water beneath her. A haunting Title: Never Swim Alone and This is a Play
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - Daniel McIvor
includes: Never Swim Alone This Is a Play
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Never the Sinner
Author: Logan, John Publisher: Samuel French 1999
Description:
roy drama all male cast; seven characters seven male two acts
Chicago, May 21, 1924. Nathan Leopold Jr., age 18, and Robert Loeb, age 19, killed 14 year old Bobby Franks and were quickly apprehended when Leopold's glasses were found near the corpse. Clarence Darrow defended them, pleading eloquently against capital punishment. Why would wealthy young men murder an innocent boy? What demons lurked behind Leob's flashing good looks? Behind Leopold's saturnine intellect? This exquisite Off Broadway hit explores the complex relationship between these two who longed to create a private world of fevered intellect and
Title: New International Plays for Young Audiences Plays of cultural conflict Author: Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy - young adult - collection - cultural conflict
includes: Turtle Island Blues - William Borden Highest Mountain, Fastest River - Donna Abela with Salamanca Theatre Company Mutiny in Crazyland - Mirjana Buljan This Land - R.N. Sandberg BOOM - Julie Salverson and Patti Fraser Crying for Time - Ros Gardner Carrying the Calf - Shirley Barrie Back Where You Belong - Susan Battye A Little Monster's Journal - Claudia Marinelli Title: New Jerusalem The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation Author: Ives, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - historical - racism seven characters five male; two female two acts
Baruch de Spinoza is a young merchant and the heir apparent of Saul Mortera, the chief Rabbi of Amsterdam. But Amsterdam's Sephardic Jews have made a fatal arrangement with the city: They have agreed to police their own community for unorthodox beliefs. When the city accuses Spinoza of atheism, Mortera must summon Baruch to the synagogue to defend himself. Spinoza's best friend, his sister and the woman he loves are all drawn into the controversy, a historical event that shook up not only the entire Jewish community of Amsterdam, but changed Spinoza's and
Title: New Monologues for Mature Actors
Author: Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2007
Description:
This first-of-its-kind anthology of comic and serious monologues is specially tailored for actors age fifty-five and older. Leading American playwrights have penned characters who are fresh and reflective of older adults in the modern world. A convenient sourcebook of monologues ideally suited for auditions or acting classes, the book also contains suggestions and exercises to use when preparing for an audition, plus listings of previously published and produced classical, comic and serious monologues for mature actors and actresses. A must for senior performers!
Title: News from St. Petersburg, The in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Orloff, Rich Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; one female; one cow (offstage) one act
Set in 1905 Russia, an aristocratic couple, their servant, and their doctor all have intense responses to a rumor of a people's revolution ending the Tsarist Republic of Russia. Title: Newsies: the musical - vocal selections
Author: Menken, Alan Feldman, Jack Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 1992
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical. Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman.
contains: Carrying the Banner Santa Fe My Lovey Dovey Baby The World Will Know Seize the Day King of New York High Times, Hard Times Once and for All
Title: Next to Normal - vocal selections
Author: Kitt, Tom Yorkey, Brian Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc. 2009
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes: Prelude Just Another Day Everything Else Perfect for you I Miss the Mountains He's Not Here You Don't Know I Am the One Superboy and the Invisible Girl
Title: Nice Family Gathering, A
Author: Olson, Phil Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy seven characters four male; three female two acts interior set
A NICE FAMILY GATHERING is a story about a man who loved his wife so much, he almost told her. It’s Thanksgiving Day and the first family gathering at the Lundeen household since the Patriarch died. At the gathering, Dad comes back as a ghost with a mission; to tell his wife he loved her, something he neglected to tell her while he was alive. After all, they were only married for 41 years. The problem is, she can’t hear or see him. The trouble begins when Mom invites a date for Title: Nightfall
Author: Murray-Smith, Joanna Publisher: Currency Press 1999
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
It’s twilight, and a mother and father wait for the promised return of their daughter who vanished ten years earlier. A stranger arrives at their doorstep, warning them that their daughter will only return on certain, agonising terms.
Title: Nobody Loves an Albatross
Author: Alexander, Ronald Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1964
Description:
roy comedy thirteen characters seven male; five female; one girl two acts
A bittersweet comedy about a television comedy writer whose strong talent lies in his ability to handle producers, stars and ghost writers.
Title: Nunsense
Author: Goggin, Dan Publisher: Samuel French 1986
Description:
roy musical - comedy all female cast; five characters five female two acts
This delightful Off-Broadway hit will certainly tickle your audience's funnybone. It's about the efforts of the Order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken (a nunnery) to raise money to bury the remaining four of the fifty-two nuns who have died of botulism contracted by eating vichyssoise prepared by the convent chef, Sister Julia (Child of God). Our five nuns have been spared the fate of the other sisters as they were playing bingo that night at another parish. Nunsense is the fundraising show they are presenting to us in hopes we will help them with the necessary cash. Title: Nunsense - The Mega Musical Version
Author: Goggin, Dan Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy musical comedy ten characters; chorus; extras one male; nine female two acts
"Nunsense: The Mega-Musical Version" is here! All the fun of the original "Nunsense" has been super-sized! If you're looking for a Large Cast Musical Comedy this award-winning show is the perfect choice. "Mega-Nunsense" starring the original five nuns features five new (male and female)characters including the never- before-seen infamous convent cook, Sister Julia, Child of God. In addition there is a large chorus of men, women and children. A new song ("One Last Hope") and two expanded dance numbers have been added as well as an optional guest spot for a
Title: Nutcracker and the Mouse-King, The in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Hoffman, E.T.A. Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas eight characters; extras six male; two female one act
A scenario of the original 1816 tale to be improvised as a play, mime or dance, with or without Tchaikovsky's music.
Title: Odyssey, The
Author: Zimmerman, Mary Fitzgerald, Robert Publisher: Northwestern University Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - ancient Greece large cast flexible casting two acts
An adaptation of Robert Fitzgerald's adaptation of Homer's Odyssey. Title: Odyssey, The in - Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors / YCL Author: Naylor, Hattie Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - high school large cast flexible casting twenty-four scenes
An adaptation of the classic action adventure.
Title: Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series
Author: Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy - collection - one acts - American
includes: Drop - J. Michael DeAngelis & Pete Barry The Education of Macoloco - Jen Silverman Realer Than That - Kit Lavoie The Student - Matt Hoverman Thucydides - Scott Elmegreen & Drew Fornarola Just Knots - Christina Gorman
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Offensive Fouls in - Things That Go Bump / YCL Author: Long, Jason Publisher: Signature Editions 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - racism - high school - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
This play looks at interracial dating, racism, violence and tolerance seen through the eyes of a high school couple. A darkly comic piece which debates what it means to be racist. Title: Old Love
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - aging - romance ten characters two male; two female (or) one male; one female (doubling) two acts
The story spans three decades and half a dozen meetings between Bud, a salesman, and Molly, his boss's wife. One of them is smitten from the very first meeting—the other, let's just say—less so. The story is straightforward, easy to follow and funny, often very funny. Canada's pre-eminent comic playwright Norm Foster has written a clever and witty dialogue celebrating the pursuit of love, the kind of love that “makes you breathe just a little bit faster.” Charmingly written, with just a few curse words for effect, Foster's use of one-liner’s serve the script well and has the audience
Title: On Directing
Author: Clurman, Harold Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1997
Description:
In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the choice of the play right through every aspect of it's production to performances and beyond. Harold Clurman, one of this century's most respected directors, presents his own directing notes for ten of his best known productions.
Title: On the Porch One Crisp Spring Morning in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Dremann, Alex Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
10 minute play.
Spy vs. spy, mother vs. daughter, twist-a-minute comedy. Title: On the Twentieth Century
Author: Comden, Betty Green, Adolph Publisher: Samuel French 1980
Description:
roy musical - comedy thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female two acts
'The story concerns the efforts of a flamboyant theatrical impresario to persuade a film star to appear in his next production, to outwit rival producers and creditors, to rid himself of religious nut Letitia Primrose and Lily's film star boyfriend Bruce Granit (who's as strong in profile as he is weak in brains). And, he must do all this before the 20th Century Ltd, reaches NYC! The story, and its two leading characters - the mad impresario Oscar Jaffe and the love of his life and his greatest star Lily Garland - can be loved and enjoyed by all audiences.'
Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Wasserman, Dale Kesey, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy tragicomedy seventeen characters thirteen male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce artinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian
Title: One Lane Bridge in - Dramatics, January 2011 / PER Author: Gregg, Stephen Publisher: Miscellaneous 2011
Description:
roy drama five characters one male; one female; three flexible one act
may be performed with up to thirteen characters.
A scary new play by Gregg. Title: One Shoe Off in - Birth and After Birth and Other Plays / COL Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - marriage five characters three male; two female two acts
"A comedy about marriage, fidelity, adulterous longings, existential panic and the theatre. Leonard is an actor who hasn't worked in eleven years; Dinah is an overworked costume designer who can't dress herself. They have invited their new neighbors for dinner. Tate is an overworked editor who delights in reciting nursery rhymes and his beautiful wife Clio is a movie starlet. Things explode when Parker Bliss suddenly drops in. He is an old friend of the hosts' and a successful movie director. Old memories are stirred and new passions are kindled as vegetables
Title: One Voice
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
Canadian collection - Daniel MacIvor - one acts
includes: House Here Lies Henry
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Ooga-Booga in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children four characters two male; two female one act
running time: 15 min.; setting: an Alberta farmhouse; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Inspired by childhood memories of coyotes howling just outside the playwright's bedroom window on the Alberta farm where she spent the first five years of her life. Title: Orestes in - Euripides IV / COL Author: Euripides translated by William Arrowsmith Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1958
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play ten characters; chorus seven male; three female one act
"The Orestes" is almost entirely free invention, an imaginative rendering of the events which follow the murder of Clytemnestra by her children.
Title: Our Class
Author: Craig, Ryan Slobodzianek, Tadeusz Publisher: Oberon Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Poland - war - historical ten characters six male; four female fourteen scenes
Tadeusz Slobodzianek's play "Our Class", in a version by Ryan Craig, from a literal translation by Catherine Grosvenor.
"A group of schoolchildren, Jewish and Catholic, declare their ambitions: one to be a fireman, one a film star, one a pilot, another a doctor. They are learning the ABC. This is Poland, 1925. As the children grow up, their country is torn apart by invading armies, first Soviet and then Nazi.
Title: Out of the Flying Pan in - Little Brother: Little Sister / Out of the Frying Pan / COL Author: Campton, David Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1966
Description:
roy comedy - Theatre of the Absurd - politics all male cast; two characters two male one act
Amid fanfares and popping flash bulbs, two diplomats (A and B) meet to engage in a bout of international bargaining. Their rapid-fire dialogue, while composed largely of outlandish doubletalk and windy pronouncements, has chilly overtones of the "real thing," as do their inevitable disagreement and estrangement. Angrily they tear apart the treaty they have signed, and turn their backs on one another. Sirens wail, guns rattle, and then a cosmic-sized explosion—followed by a sudden, heavy silence. In the stillness B stalks off the stage, but then a Title: Out of their Heads in - Young Blood / YCL Author: Romer, Marcus Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1998
Description:
roy young adult - drugs twelve characters two male; one female (doubling) one act
'Out of their Heads' explodes the myths surrounding drugs and the club scene by depicting the betrayal and friendship of three young people who take a trip beyond anything they ever expected.
Title: Outsourced in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Cunningham, Laura Shaine Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
This may be the first play incorporating that staple of modern life, Kimberly the subcontinental call center operator.
Title: Outsourced in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Shaine, Laura Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - American two characters one male; one female one act
Max is completely maxed out on all of his credit cards but he is desperate for more cash. He telephones his latest card supplier to extend his credit and reaches that dreaded modern phenomenon, the Call Centre. Which country is he calling? Is there a happy end to his crisis? Title: Outspoken A Canadian collection of lesbian scenes and monologues Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
Canadian - scenes and monologues
Touching on gender, sexuality, family, pop culture, and history, these pieces range from the hilarious to the poignant, the sexy to the sincere, the truthful to the tongue-in-cheek. Collected by writer and journalist Susan G. Cole from poetry, prose, theatre, and even a graphic novel, the scenes and monologues found in this collection reflect personal, political, and cultural complexities in the Canadian lesbian community. Intended for study or auditions and infinitely readable on its own, Outspoken includes works by trey anthony, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Mariko Tamaki, d’bi.young.anitafrika, Jovette Marchessault, and many more.
Title: Outstanding Men's Monologues v. 1
Author: Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2002
Description:
Editor Craig Pospisil has drawn exclusively from Dramatists Play Service publications to compile this collection, which features over fifty monologues. You will find an enormous range of voices and subject matter, characters from their teens to their seventies and authors from widely varied backgrounds, some well known, others less so, but all immensely talented. This selection represents some of the best writing in the American theatre today.
Title: Outstanding Women's Monologues 2001-2002
Author: Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2002
Description:
Editor Craig Pospisil has drawn exclusively from Dramatists Play Service publications to compile this collection, which features over fifty monologues. You will find an enormous range of voices and subject matter, characters from their teens to their seventies and authors from widely varied backgrounds, some well known, others less so, but all immensely talented. This selection represents some of the best writing in the American theatre today. Title: Overcurrents and Undercurrents - Electrical Safety Advances Through Electro All about GFICs, AFICs, and similar devices Author: Roberts, Earl W. Publisher: Reptec 2004
Description:
Reference. Topics include: ⌦Beginning of electric shock concerns; Overcurrent protection; fuses and circuit breakers; Grounding practices in North America; European grounding practices and systems; TT system leads to need for RCDs; USA TV problems; Early medical research; Effects of current on the human body; International RCD developments; Birth of the GFCI; Evolution of various GFCI types; Evolutionary national electrical code requirements for GFCI, GFP, and AFCI protection; Equipment ground fault protection (GFP); Fire prevention capabilities of GFCIs and GFP; Hair dryer, etc. and the proliferation of protective device types; Present variations : GFCI, GFP, ALCI, ELCI, IDCI, and LMR; and Arc-fault circuit-interrupter AFCI.
Title: Paper Bag Princess, The in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy children - comedy large cast flexible casting (boys and girls) one act
adapted for the stage by Irene N. Watts.
Princess Elizabeth rescues her boyfriend, Prince Ronald, from the dragon.
Title: Papier in - Canadian Theatre Review vol. 143 (Summer 2010) / PER Author: Le Collectif Moncton-Sable Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy drama - experimental theatre - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act
Over many months LE COLLECTIF MONCTON-SABLE tore, ripped, shredded, taped, folded, crinkled, wrapped, licked, ate, cut, and handled paper like never before. What emerged from this is a playful and provocative piece of theatre—and a general ambiance of productive anarchy. Title: Parcel Pickup in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Schwartz, Paula Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy seniors - comedy two characters; voice one male; one female one act
A man attempts to retrieve a package from a parcel pick-up center of a large firm.
Title: Partridge in a Pear Tree, A in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Swortzell, Lowell Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas six characters; chorus four male; two female one act
setting: long ago in Medieval Europe, on the outskirts of a small town, at Christmas time.
The twelve days of Christmas in a mini-musical with but one song.
Title: Passage
Author: Raine, David S. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1989
Description:
roy drama - family relationships all male cast; two characters two male one act
1 simple set. When Andy Ableson comes to the aid of his brother Milo in the dark, cramped confines of a small cave, the young men have an opportunity to examine the circumstances that slowly drove them apart over the years. As they await rescue, the brothers rediscover the friendship and love that was lost to them and confront the things that truly hold them hostage. Each is trapped in his own way, but who will be set free? This is a powerful play with extraordinary roles for two young men, Title: Passing Strange The complete book and lyrics of the Broadway Musical Author: Stew Rodewald, Heidi Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2009
Description:
roy musical eighteen characters; extras; musicians ten male; eight female; doubling possible two acts
music by Stew and Heidi Rodewald.
PASSING STRANGE is the story of a young musician who travels to Amsterdam and Berlin to find "the real" after being raised in a churchgoing middle-class Los Angeles Neighborhood.
Winner 2008 Tony Award - Best Book of a Musical; Drama Desk Award; New York Drama Critic's
Title: Passion Play
Author: Ruhl, Sarah Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy drama - faith - morality - politics seventeen characters seven male; three female; one flexible (doubling) three parts
running time: 3.5 hrs. with 2 intermissions
"Sarah Ruhl’s "Passion Play" takes us behind the scenes of three communities attempting to stage the death and resurrection of Christ. From Queen Elizabeth’s England to Hitler’s Germany to Reagan’s America, Ruhl’s exploration of devotion takes us on a humorous yet unsettling journey filled with lust, whimsy, and a lot of fish."
Title: Patch of Earth, A in - The Theatre of Genocide / COL Author: Felde, Kitty Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - genocide - Bosnia - Yugoslavia - war crimes twenty-five characters five male; four female (doubling) two acts
War crimes in former Yugoslavia.
Winner of the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition. Title: Pie in the Sky in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: Berius, Livia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy young adult - Canadian all female cast; four characters four female ten scenes
Description not available.
Title: Playground, The in - Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors / YCL Author: Adshead, Kay Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - high school large cast flexible casting two acts
THE PLAYGROUND is intended as an epic and democratic spectacle inspired by the magic of West Africa.
Title: Plays For Actresses
Author: Publisher: Vintage International 1997
Description:
roy - collection - all female cast
contains: Three Tall Women - Edward Albee Independence - Lee Blessing Beautiful Bodies - Laura Cunningham The Most Massive Woman Wins - Madeleine George Bedtime - Mary Gallagher Tea - Velina Hasu Houston Appearances - Tina Howe David's Redhaired Death - Sherry Kramer Catholic School Girls - Casey Kurtti Title: Plays: 4
Author: Frayn, Michael Publisher: Methuen & Co 2010
Description:
roy - collection - Michael Frayn
includes: Copenhagen Democracy Afterlife
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Please Have a Seat and Someone Will Be With You Shortly in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Wingfield, Garth Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
Two strangers whose psychiatrists share the same waiting room finally break the ice and share the images they have constructed of each other's life.
Title: Poodles in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Cale, David Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act
A part of his solo show "A Likely Story", the story displays the marital tribulations which ensue when one partner becomes obsessed with dogs. Title: Pops in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Sanchez, Edwin Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - men - monologues all male cast; one character one male one scene
A man reflects on his father's life and his attachment to I Love Lucy.
Title: Popular Political Theatre and Performance
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
Reference
“This collection of new and previously published writing presents a range of artists and scholars grappling with questions about history, politics, and criticism in English Canadian popular theatre. These essays provide a variety of voices and approaches to creating politically engaged and aesthetically challenging theatre that is provocative in content and responsive to the times in which it is produced."
Title: Portable Bernard Shaw, The
Author: Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
Contains the celebrated "Don Juan in Hell" scene from "Man and Superman"; Bernard Shaw's major prose work, "The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God"; letters, articles, reviews, and speeches - all representing the entire spectrum of Shaw's long career.
Also includes five of his plays: The Devil's Disciple Pygmalion In the Beginning Heartbreak House Shakes versus Shav
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Post-its (Notes on a Marriage) in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Dooley, Paul Holzman, Winnie Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act
An updated version of A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, substituting Post-its for Gurney's more traditional missives.
Title: Postmortem
Author: Ludwig, Ken Publisher: Samuel French 1989
Description:
roy thriller - murder mystery - comedy eight characters four male; four female two acts
This clever thriller by the author of Lend Me a Tenor and Sullivan & Gilbert has delighted audiences nationwide. Actor manager and playwright William Gillette, best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in his hugely successful adaptation of Conan Doyle a popular play available from Samuel French, has invited his sister and the cast of his latest revival of the play for a weekend at his magnificent pseudo medieval castle on a bluff overlooking the Connecticut River. For entertainment Gillette has arranged a seance. Now the scene is set for his greatest role.
Title: Powers and Gloria
Author: Roulston, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
When Edward Connell Powers suffers a stroke, he must turn over the running of his furniture factory, the town’s largest employer, to his son James. When he comes home from hospital, James hires the only caregiver he can find, Gloria Delaney, a single-mom, high school drop-out whose hair is bigger than her sense of worth. It seems a doomed relationship but little by little over Edward’s long convalescence, she wins his respect for her humour, spirit and intelligence while she sees beyond his intimidating, crusty exterior. Gloria helps him as he seeks to rebuild his Title: Practical DMX
Author: Mobsby, Nick Publisher: Entertainment Technology Press 2006
Description:
Reference. Contents: Introduction to lighting networks Types of lighting network Analog networks Digital (DMX) networks DMX Processing equipment DMX installations Lighting networks: cabling and connectors Introduction to ethernet lighting networks Test equipment
Title: Precious in - Theatre Centre: Plays for young people / YCL Author: Turvey, Angela Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2003
Description:
roy young adult all female cast; three characters three female thirteen scenes
suggested for schools, colleges, and youth centres.
Decisions made at a young age are filtered through bitter adult experience in a tender, beautifully-written piece centred in the experience of black and Asian women as generations clash and art and life combine.
Title: Prelude to a Kiss in - Prelude to a Kiss and other plays / COL Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2002
Description:
roy fantasy comedy twelve characters; extras eight male; four female two acts
The play is about a young couple who meet, fall in love, have a whirlwind courtship, and marry. At the wedding, the bride is kissed by an elderly man no one has seen before-and mysteriously, the bride and the old man exchange souls. Title: Prelude to a Kiss and Other Plays
Author: Lucas, Craig Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2002
Description:
collection - Craig Lucas
includes: Prelude to a Kiss Missing Persons Three Postcards
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Promise to the Sun, A in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Mollel, Tololwa M. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian-African - children - Africa - seasons sixteen characters two male; two female (doubling) four scenes
setting: the African savannah; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Inspired by the playwright's fascination, growing up in Northern Tanzania in East Africa, with the magical changing of the seasons and the stark difference between dry and rainy ones, the two main seasons in the East African savannah. The play is based on his book with the same title.
Title: Pure Gold Scenes from Canadian plays since 1990 Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
Canadian scenes
'Pure Gold' is a collection of scenes from some of Canada’s finest playwrights, featuring a broad range of topics for all ages. Culled from a wide variety of award-winning plays, the pieces presented here are sure to delight both those new to Canadian plays and those familiar with some of this country’s most memorable stage shows from the past twenty years. Ideal for scene study or just a good read. includes excerpts from: The December Man (L’homme de décembre) - Colleen Murphy Elizabeth Rex - Timothy Findley Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) - Ann-Marie MacDonald Mary’s Wedding - Stephen Massicotte Title: Purity
Author: Bradshaw, Thomas Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy dark satire eight characters five male; three female (doubling possible) nineteen scenes
In PURITY, a refined and prominent African-American English professor’s life is turned upside down when a new, 'more black' professor is hired in his department and challenges his authenticity, his marriage to a white woman, and his entire way of life. This way of life consists of literature, booze, cocaine binges, and pedophilia. From realism to fantasy, Purity takes us on a journey from the Ivy League to the antebellum South to the fields of Ecuador and back again, ending on a note of shocking violence.
Title: Pyaasa in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - India - social issues all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) nine scenes
set in present day Bengal, India.
"The story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya’s mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall, Chaya’s journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over ten days. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the inequalities and
Title: Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma
Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy - Canadian - collection - Anusree Roy - one acts
includes: Pyaasa Letters to My Grandma
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Pygmalion in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy comedy - romance twelve characters six male; six female five acts
3 sets; requires the use of accents.
A phonetics expert bets that he can change a Cockney flower girl into a duchess after six months of speech training and proceeds to do so without considering the repercussions of the experiment upon the girl's life.
Title: Quality of Life, The
Author: Anderson, Jane Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
Dinah and Bill, a devout, church-going couple from the Midwest are struggling to keep their lives intact after the loss of their daughter. Dinah is compelled to reconnect with her left-leaning cousins in Northern California who’re going through their own trials. Jeannette and Neil have lost their home to a wildfire and Neil has cancer. However they seem to have accepted their situation with astounding good humor, living in a yurt on their burn site and celebrating life with hits of pot and glasses of good red wine. Bill and Dinah are both moved and perplexed by their cousins’
Title: Queens, The
Author: Chaurette, Normand translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy drama - historical - Shakespeare all female cast; six characters six female eleven parts
While a heavy snowfall blankets London, King Edward lies on his deathbed, and his younger brother, the monstrous Richard, is plotting to assassinate all who stand between him and the throne. As the balance of power shifts, the palace women—“Queens” of the royal families of York, Lancaster, and Plantagenet—fight tooth, nail and tongue to gain the prospective monarch’s favour: the anguished Queen Elizabeth; the elderly Duchess of York, mother of Edward and Richard; the dethroned queen, Margaret of Anjou; the ambitious and grasping Warwick sisters, Title: Rabbit Hole
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2006
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
"The Corbetts have everything a family could want, until the day their world is turned upside down. In the aftermath of a life-shattering accident, a young husband and wife find themselves drifting perilously apart. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places… and a path that will led them back up into the light of day."
Title: Rabbit Tale, A in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - Chinese folk tales four characters two male; two female one act
running time: 15 min.; setting: an evening in China; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Inspired by Chinese folk tales the playwright heard growing up, many involving rabbits, the moon, love, and heartbreak. She wanted to capture the drama and romance of many of the stories, weaving in natural phenomena, the lengths lovers go to be reunited, and a very clever and lucky rabbit.
Title: Rapture
Author: Murray-Smith, Joanna Publisher: Currency Press 2002
Description:
roy spirituality - drama - friendship six characters three male; three female one act
A vivid, timely new play that shines a revealing light on Australia’s unsettled soul. The play is set among intelligent and educated people whose cynicism appears to answer all questions and who navigate uncertainty with ease. What could possibly shock or unsettle them? The answer is: faith. When two of their number claim to have found God, the consequences are profound. Ethics and certainties are tested on a battleground of inexplicable belief. Long-term friendships are pushed to the limit as the faithless wrestle with the affront of moral judgement. Title: Rats, The
Author: Christie, Agatha Publisher: Samuel French 1963
Description:
roy melodrama four characters two male; two female one act
1 interior set.
A man arrives at a flat in answer to a message, and then a woman arrives by another invitation. They are lovers. In the midst of this perplexity there enters an odd fellow who had known the woman's first husband very well. After he leaves, they find themselves locked in. The fellow, who correctly guessed that the woman killed her first husband, has set the stage to trap them like rats.
Title: Realer Than That in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Lavoie, Kitt Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female one act
After being reunited at a friend’s wedding, a pair of high school sweethearts return to a hotel room for one last romp – but their reunion is complicated by his recent stint on a reality show and the secret that he shared with the world.
Title: Red
Author: Logan, John Publisher: Currency Press
Description:
roy drama - artists all male cast; two characters two male one act
'There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend... One day the black will swallow the red.' Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing.. Nominated for 7 Olivier Awards (2009) nominated as Best New Play at what'sonstage.com theatre Title: Rehearsal, The in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Villiers, George Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy satire - Restoration large cast mixed casting five acts
" 'The Rehearsal', an amusing and clever satire on the heroic drama and especially on Dryden's 'The Conquest of Granada' (first performed on 7 December 1671, at the Theatre Royal, and first published in 1672), a deservedly popular play which was imitated by Henry Fielding in 'Tom Thumb the Great', and by Sheridan in 'The Critic'."
Title: Rehearsal, The
Author: Anouilh, Jean translated by Pamela Hansford Johnson and Kitt Publisher: Methuen & Co 1961
Description:
roy drama eight characters five male; three female three acts
2 interior sets.
When a faded Count finds true love in an innocent governess, the structure and routine of his peer group's lifestyle is threatened. Consequently, his wife, his mistress and his best friend go to great lengths to destroy the new relationship.
Title: Relapse; or, Virtue in Danger, The in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Vanbrugh, John Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy Restoration - comedy fourteen characters ten male; four female five acts
12 interiors, 3 exterior; the sequel of 'The Fool in Fashion'.
"Late Restoration comedy of manners. Satire of English society in 1690's. Plot deals with marital fidelity." Title: Rembrandt's Gift in - Birth and After Birth and Other Plays / COL Author: Howe, Tina Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy comedy - romance - art three characters two male; one female two acts
"Walter Paradise and Polly Shaw are in their sixties and have been married forever. She's a world-class photographer; he's a former actor turned hoarder. Their Soho loft is disappearing under stacks of old costumes that block the windows and doors, creating a fire hazard. The landlord is on his way to evict them when the great Dutch painter Rembrandt suddenly appears in full 17th century regalia. The three then spend the day together testing the limits of art, love and old age."
Title: Restoration A full-length play Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy drama - British - historical thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
multiple sets or area staging; optional music; period - eighteenth century; place: England - or another place at another time.
Edward Bond has set this play in the eighteenth century and calls it "a pastoral." It comes complete with an arranged marriage, a restless wife and a family ghost. It draws pointed contrasts between life above stairs and life below, between the town and the country, between the landed gentry and
Title: Restoration A full-length play Author: Bond, Edward Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1982
Description:
roy drama - British - historical thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
multiple sets or area staging; optional music; period - eighteenth century; place: England - or another place at another time.
Edward Bond has set this play in the eighteenth century and calls it "a pastoral." It comes complete with an arranged marriage, a restless wife and a family ghost. It draws pointed contrasts between life above stairs and life below, between the town and the country, between the landed gentry and Title: Restoration Plays
Author: Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
collection - restoration drama
includes: The Rehearsal - George Villiers The Country Wife - William Wycherley The Man of Mode - George Etherege All for Love - by John Dryden Venice Preserved - Thomas Otway The Relapse - John Vanbrugh The Way of the World - William Congreve The Beaux' Stratagem - George Farquhar
Title: Return The Sarajevo project Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - family relationships six characters; minor characters two male; three female (doubling) nine scenes
Can you ever really go home again? Five years after fleeing the war in Sarajevo and escaping to Canada, Tarik Nakas returns to Bosnia—with his new Canadian wife—to face the family he left behind. With his sudden reappearance, those he left must now reconcile their love for Tarik with their anger at his betrayal. RETURN (The Sarajevo Project) is a unique international co-creation developed by an ensemble of Canadian and Bosnian theatre artists. The production was created over three years of workshops in two countries, and was presented at the Sarajevo International
Title: Revenge of Sacajawea, The in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Paiste, Terryl Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors three characters; one female voice two male; one female one act
set in the present.
Two men, George Washington and Phil Matchly, are called to the Women's court of Iniquities to face the judge, Sacajawea. Title: Rhesus in - Euripides IV / COL Author: Euripides translated by Richmond Lattimore Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1958
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play eleven characters; chorus nine male; two female one act
'The action is taken direct from the tenth book of the Iliad. Its chief events are the sortie of Dolon, the counter-mission of Odysseus and Diomedes, who kill Dolon, and the death of Rhesus.
Title: Rich Relations in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy comedy - Chinese five characters two male; three female two acts
"Keith is a prep school debate teacher on the run with Jill, his student and underage girlfriend. They arrive at the Los Angeles mansion of his father Hinson, an amusingly hopeless technophile who left the ministry to become a wealthy real estate baron. Long ago he was raised from the dead through the love of his sister Barbara -- but now Auntie Barbara is perched on the balcony, threatening suicide unless Keith marries her cable-addicted daughter (Keith's first cousin). Full of wit, magic, and ruined household appliances, 'Rich Relations' explores the ties between wealth
Title: Roanoke in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Lew, Michael Schatz, Matt Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act
10 minute play; music/lyrics by Matt Schatz.
"Butter churns, hardtack and...musical numbers? This hilarious inside look at the high-stakes, hardcore world of historical re-enactors pits accuracy against exuberance against interoffice politics in the Lost Colony of Roanoke." Title: Rock of Ages - vocal selections
Author: Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation n.d.
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes Just Like Paradise Nothin' But a Good Time Sister Christian We Built This City Too Much Time on My Hands I Wanna Rock We're Not Gonna Take It Heaven More Than Words
Title: Roimata in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Brown, Riwia Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - New Zealand - Maori - drama eight characters three male; five female seventeen scenes
suggested for ages 18+.
Roimata, having been brought up on the East Coast by her grandmother, comes to the city to stay with her half-sister, Girlie. There she meets Eddy, the leader of an urban gang and Kevin, a childhood friend who has since joined the Salvation Army.
Title: Romantic Influence, The
Author: Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1963
Description:
roy - collection - romanticism
includes: Faust, part 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mary Stuart - Friedrich Schiller Hernani - Victor Hugo Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Room Inside the Room I'm In, The in - Dramatics vol. 81 no. 7 / PER Author: Fill, Simon Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy drama-relationships two characters one male; one female one act
A young man and a young woman reunite in a Manhattan subway station, after a lengthy time apart. Suitable for school setting.
Title: Roots
Author: Wesker, Arnold Publisher: Penguin Books 1960
Description:
roy drama - working class struggles - British nine characters five male; four female three acts
3 interiors.
"Second play in Roots' trilogy. Problems of English farm laborers in a society that has no place for them. Set in Norfolk. Includes words and music of a song."
Title: Rosa's Eulogy in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Strand, Richard Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one scene
A woman delivers a moving eulogy for what she believes to be a stray cat. Title: Ruined
Author: Nottage, Lynn Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2009
Description:
roy drama - women - war eleven characters; extras seven male; four female two acts
A rain forest bar and brothel in the brutally war-torn Congo is the setting for Lynn Nottage’s extraordinary new play. The establishment’s shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi, keeps peace between customers from both sides of the civil war, as government soldiers and rebel forces alike choose from her inventory of women, many already “ruined” by rape and torture when they were pressed into prostitution. Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congo refugees, Nottage has crafted an engrossing and uncommonly human story with humor and song served alongside
Title: Rumors in - The Collected Plays of Neil Simon v.4 / COL Author: Simon, Neil Publisher: Simon and Schuster 1996
Description:
roy farce ten characters five male; five female two acts
Four couples go to the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary, but the party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (he's suffered a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer's cover up gets progressively more strained as the other guests arrive, but nobody remembers who said what about whom.
Title: Running in Circles Screaming in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Mahoney, Jeni Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama three characters one male; two female one act
Two women, Lou (Louise) and Heather, meet on the playground: watching the kids, sharing stories of mommy-hood and the workings of the universe, but when Heather shares her disappointment in having a boy rather than a girl, Lou turns out not to be the soul sister she was looking for. Heather ends up leaving the playground miffed and snubbed, knowing that her new friend Lou isn't a fellow mommy at all, but she wishes desperately that she were. Title: Safe
Author: Glazer, Tony Ruivivar, Anthony Publisher: Samuel French 2004
Description:
roy thriller five characters four male; one female two acts
Five people are coerced into a bank vault during a violent robbery. Camaraderie gives way to conflict as the will to survive spawns paranoia and deception. One by one, the captives turn on each other, create alliances, reveal their true selves and even resort to murder. This dark comic thriller, part survival story and part cautionary tale, enthralls and surprises from the opening scene to a final haunting discovery.
Title: Safeguard in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Cohen, Harold Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors three characters one male; two female one act
A woman arrives for a portrait sitting while the artists' husband is experiencing writer's block.
Title: Saint George and the Dragon at Christmas Tide in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Sigley, Marjorie Anonymous Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas twenty-six characters; extras fourteen male; three female (doubling) two scenes
A Medieval mummer's play for performance today. Title: Salome in - Five Plays by Oscar Wilde / COL Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Bantam Books 1972
Description:
roy tragedy thirteen characters; extras eleven male; two female one act
1 interior.
"Salome dances for Herod Antipas and as her reward claims the head of John the Baptist."
Title: Saturday Sunday Monday A play in three acts Author: de Filippo, Eduardo Waterhouse, Keith Publisher: Samuel French 1974
Description:
roy comedic drama - British seventeen characters ten male; seven female three acts
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's English adaptation of Eduardo de Filippo's play.
This highly praised version is a sparkling contemporary commedia dell'arte about a feuding Neapolitan family. Peppino suspects his wife Rosa of infidelity and she is brooding because he spurned her cooking and praised a meal prepared by his daughter in law. The character rich cast also includes a crusty grandfather, a formidable widowed aunt on the make for the family doctor,
Title: Scratch
Author: Corbeil-Coleman, Charlotte Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy - death - family relations six characters two male; four female one act
Being a teenager is hard enough, but add to the mix a persistent case of head-lice, raging hormones, and a terminally ill mother, and it becomes impossible. When fifteen-year-old Anna is told that her mother is dying of cancer, she responds in the only way she knows how—by ignoring the issue. Friends and family are unable to understand her reaction and Anna is increasingly frustrated by their attempts to help her, escalated of course by her persistent itching. Told by Anna with assistance from her best friend, Father, Aunt, and her dying mother, Scratch is Title: Search for Odysseus, The in - Young Blood / YCL Author: Way, Charles Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1998
Description:
roy young adult - adventure fourteen characters; extras three male; three female (doubling) five acts
audience recommendation: 11+.
'The Search for Odysseus' tells the story of the Odyssey, from the point of view of Telemachus, the son of Odysseus. After the Trojan War, Odysseus does not return with the other soldiers, and Telemachus sets out to find him and in so doing embarks on a voyage of self discovery.
Title: Seascape with Sharks and Dancer
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 1985
Description:
roy romance - drama two characters one male; one female one act
The play is set in a beach bungalow. The young man who lives there has pulled a lost young woman from the ocean. Soon, she finds herself trapped in his life and torn between her need to come to rest somewhere and her certainty that all human relationships turn eventually into nightmares. The struggle between his tolerant and gently ironic approach to life and her strategy of suspicion and attack becomes a kind of war about love and creation which neither can afford to lose. This is an offbeat, wonderful love story.
Title: Second Shepherd's Play, The in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Harris, Aurand Anonymous Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas - comedy seven characters four male; two female; one flexible one act
Aurand Harris' adaptation of a traditional play.
A sheep is stolen and a baby is born in this medieval comedy. Title: Seniors Acting Up Humorous new one-act plays and skits for older adults - an anthology Author: Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
seniors - one act
includes: Welcome to Acceptance - Terryl Paiste Parcel Pickup - Paula Schwartz A Medicare Affaire - Pat Edwards Fruitcakes - Judith S. Offer Modern Technology - Barbara Fogerson Safeguard - Harold Cohen The E.B.F.F. Wants You - Judith Offer Shotgun Wedding - Beverly Bonniwell Interview with Dan Cupid - Ruth Malnik
Title: Sex Please We're Sixty! An American farce Author: Parker, Michael Parker, Susan Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy seniors - farce six characters two male; four female two acts
Mrs. Stancliffe’s Rose Cottage Bed & Breakfast has been successful for many years. Her Guests (nearly all women) return year after year. Her next door neighbor, the elderly, silver-tongued, Bud “Bud the Stud” Davis believes they come to spend time with him in romantic liaisons. The prim and proper Mrs. Stancliffe steadfastly denies this, but really doesn’t do anything to prevent it. She reluctantly accepts the fact that “Bud the Stud” is, in fact, good for business. Her other neighbor and would-be suitor Henry Mitchell is a retired chemist who has developed a blue pill called
Title: Shakes versus Shav in - The Portable Bernard Shaw / COL Author: Shaw, George Bernard Publisher: Penguin Books 1977
Description:
roy drama - puppet play in verse six characters five male; one female one scene
has been performed with actors playing the parts written for the puppets; running time: 20 min.
Shaw's last play to be performed in his lifetime was requested from him by the puppeteer Waldo Lanchester. "Shakespeare challenges Shaw as an upstart, quoting lines from his own plays. Shaw claims that Macbeth has been bettered by Scott's novel Rob Roy, and "proves" the point by staging a fight between the shades of the two Scots, which Rob Roy wins. Shaw then asserts that Adam Title: Shakespeare's Dog
Author: Chafe, Rick Rooke, Leon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian comedy - historical - England sixteen characters five male; three female (doubling) two acts
Rick Chafe's adaptation of Leon Rooke's Governor General Literary Award-winning novel "Shakespeare's Dog".
"With his sights on London and his family in Stratford, a young William Shakespeare is torn between the two loves of his life: the theatre and his wife. Living in a wild world full of unpredictable creatures—beasts, beggars, witch hunters, and actors—William’s family must find a
Title: Shel's Shorts
Author: Silverstein, Shel Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2003
Description:
roy - collection - comedy - children - Shel Silverstein
contains: Dreamers All Cotton Hard Hat Area Abandon All Hope Hangnail No Dogs Allowed No Skronking Do Not Feed the Animal Click
Title: Shepherds of Saint Francis, The in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Swortzell, Lowell Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas - religious eight characters; extras five male; three female; extras played by members of the audience five scenes
setting: December 1223 - near, in and around the town of Greccio, Italy.
The story of the first Christmas pageant. Title: Shotgun Wedding in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Bonniwell, Beverly Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - weddings eighteen characters six male; eleven female; one girl one act
A young back country couple force a shotgun wedding.
Title: Show Me the Wey-Hey! in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Golosky, Julie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - performance anxiety eight characters two male; two female (doubling; flexible casting) one act
running time: 15 min.; setting: Northern Alberta; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
A play based on the playwright's own experience with stage fright after a number of years immersed in classical music and the quest for the "perfect sound". Like Violet, she felt that she had lost her voice and a connection to the songs of her past. She had thought about giving up many times, but her friends and family continued to encourage her to keep singing. They helped her
Title: Shrek the Musical - vocal selections
Author: Lindsay-Abaire, David Tesori, Jeanine Publisher: Cherry Lane Music Company 2008
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes: Big Bright Beautiful World Story of My Life Don't Let Me Go I Know It's Today What's Up Duloc? Travel Song Donkey Pot Pie This is How a Dream Comes True Who I'd Be Title: Silence of God in - The Theatre of Genocide / COL Author: Filloux, Catherine Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - genocide - Cambodia sixteen characters three male (two of them Asian); one female (doubling) two acts
" 'Silence of God' is a fictional account of Cambodia, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, imagined through the eyes of a journalist at the end of the Pol Pot leadership."
Title: Single Numberless Death, A in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Mayberry, Bob Strejilevich, Nora Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - Argentinian - American six characters; multiple narrators five male; one female; flexible narrators ten scenes
adapted from the book of the same title by Nora Strejilevich, that was translated by Kathy Odgers and Nora Strejilevich; suggested for ages 18+.
During the late 1970s and 80s, thousands of people disappeared during the reign of the Milicos, the secret police of the Argentine military junta. 'A Single Numberless Death', based on the book of the same name by Nora Strejilevich, recounts the abduction, torture and escape of a central
Title: Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors
Author: Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy - young adult - collection
includes: East End Tales - Fin Kennedy Wan2tlk? - Kevin Fagan Stuff I Buried in a Small Town - Mike Bartlett Sweetpeter - John Retallack and Usifu Jalloh The Playground - Kay Adshead The Odyssey - Hattie Naylor
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Skin and Liars
Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy - young adult - Canadian - collection - Dennis Foon
includes: Skin Liars
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Skydive
Author: Kerr, Kevin Publisher: Talonbooks 2010
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
SKYDIVE explores the world of dreams and imagination: the universal human desire to push beyond our physical imitations and to fly. Having grown apart after a traumatic event in their youth, two brothers reconnect to fulfil a lifelong ambition to go skydiving. Morgan (a feckless schemer who has recently reinvented himself as a counsellor) arrives on the doorstep of Daniel (a housebound agoraphobe), offering to help "liberate" his brother by administering his newly invented technique of "paratherapy." Skydive was created to be performed by one able-bodied and
Title: Slasher: A Horrifying Comedy in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Moore, Allison Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy satire fourteen characters two male; six female (doubling) eighteen scenes
"When she's cast as the 'last girl' in a low-budget slasher flick, Sheena thinks it's the big break she's been waiting for. But news of the movie unleashes her malingering mother's thwarted feminist rage, and Mom is prepared to do anything to stop filming…even if it kills her." Title: Snipes in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Brausen, Leona Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - folk tale four characters one male; three female (flexible casting) five scenes
running time: 15 min.; setting: somewhere in Norway; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
'Snipes' is taken from an old Norwegian folk tale.
Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The musical Author: Kelly, Tim Francoeur, Bill Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1994
Description:
roy musical - children - fairy tale sixteen characters two male; seven female; seven flexible (flexible casting) two acts
simple set; running time: about 75 min.
Tim Kelly and Bill Francoeur's musical adaptation from The Brothers Grimm. All our old friends, plus a few new ones, are here in this marvelous musical adaptation. We’ll meet the captivating Princess Snow White, the prince, the evil queen and, of course, the seven mischievous dwarfs — Sarge, Gabby, Gloomy Gus, Ticklish, Spritely, Snore, and Slowpoke. There’s also a hilarious
Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The musical Author: Kelly, Tim Francoeur, Bill Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1994
Description:
roy musical - children - fairy tale sixteen characters two male; seven female; seven flexible (flexible casting) two acts
simple set; running time: about 75 min.
Tim Kelly and Bill Francoeur's musical adaptation from The Brothers Grimm. All our old friends, plus a few new ones, are here in this marvelous musical adaptation. We’ll meet the captivating Princess Snow White, the prince, the evil queen and, of course, the seven mischievous dwarfs — Sarge, Gabby, Gloomy Gus, Ticklish, Spritely, Snore, and Slowpoke. There’s also a hilarious Title: Snowman in - Exposure / CCO Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female two parts
After years of wandering, Denver and Marjorie find themselves in a remote northern community at the edge of a glacier, chopping wood, renting out stolen videos and snorting cocaine with Jude, a young gay man whose parents have abandoned him. When Jude discovers the body of a prehistoric boy frozen in the glacier, everyone's lives begin to shift and thaw in unexpected ways.
Title: Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, The
Author: Dobson, Mary Lynn Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy comedy - children - adventure fourteen characters (large cast possible) eight male; six female two acts
cast may be reduced to 10 or expanded to 25 or more; flexible staging; approx. running time: 1 hr and 20 min.
It sure is hard to be humble when you're a swashbuckling, egocentric super-hero. But our gallant guy-in-green tries his best as he swaggers through The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, a frantically funny, Monty Pythonesque retelling of the classic. This time around, the legendary
Title: Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, The
Author: Dobson, Mary Lynn Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2000
Description:
roy comedy - children - adventure fourteen characters (large cast possible) eight male; six female two acts
cast may be reduced to 10 or expanded to 25 or more; flexible staging; approx. running time: 1 hr and 20 min.
It sure is hard to be humble when you're a swashbuckling, egocentric super-hero. But our gallant guy-in-green tries his best as he swaggers through The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, a frantically funny, Monty Pythonesque retelling of the classic. This time around, the legendary Title: Souls in - Theatre Centre: Plays for young people / YCL Author: Williams, Roy Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2003
Description:
roy young adult all male cast; three characters three male six scenes
suggested for schools, colleges, and youth centres.
Three brothers from a black British family struggle to connect with each other emotionally in the wake of their mother's death and under the shadow of their father's suicide. Written in vibrant dialogue, the play unlocks the problems men have with communicating their feelings, with making choices and facing up to responsibilities.
Title: Sound of a Voice, The in - FOB and and Other Plays / COL Author: Hwang, David Henry Publisher: New American Library 1990
Description:
roy drama - Japanese - folklore two characters one male; one female one act
suggested for high school.
"The scene is an isolated house in the woods where a young woman lives alone. When a young samurai appears she offers him food and shelter, and they eventually become lovers. But while fascinated by his benefactress, the samurai cannot shake a mistrust of her; for she is also able to perform wonders of cookery, horticulture and even the martial arts. In the end it develops that the
Title: Sound of Music, The
Author: Lindsay, Howard Crouse, Russel Publisher: Miscellaneous 1959
Description:
roy musical - biography twenty-four characters; extras eight male; nine female; two boys; five girls two acts
3 exteriors; 4 interiors.
'The story of the escape of the Trapp family from Austria after the Nazi takeover prior to World War II. Maria, hired as a governess for the captain's seven children, teaches them to sing, filling the house with warmth, gentleness and enthusiasm. Very sentimental. Provides good roles for adolescents and children. Within range of all.' Title: Spot, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - politics six characters two male; two female; two male or female one scene
A crew is working on a "truthful" TV spot for a political candidate.
Title: Spring Awakening - vocal selections
Author: Sheik, Duncan Sater, Steven Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 2006
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical. Music by Duncan Sheik, lyrics by Steven Sater.
contains: Mama Who Bore Me All That's Known The B**** of Living My Junk Touch Me The Word of Your Body The Dark I Know Well And Then There Were None The Mirror-Blue Night
Title: Sprouts! An anthology of plays from Concrete Theatre's Sprouts New Play Festival for Kids Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy - collection - children - one acts
includes: Snipes - Leona Brausen Fi Jee and the Two Moons - Marty Chan Curly Girl - Portia Clark Carnival Magic - Patricia Darbasie The Boy Who Lived With Bears - Sheldon Elter They're Not Like You and Me - Rita Espechit Show Me the Wey-Hey! - Julie Golosky A Foolish Boy - Beth Graham and Daniela Vlaskalic Marzooq, the Lucky One - Mark Haroun Title: Standard British And other varieties of modern South British accents of the Upper & Middle Class Author: Lane-Plescia, Gillian Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006
Description:
reference - accents and dialects
Contains one booklet and one CD.
Title: Statue of Bolivar in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Lane, Eric Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
Sets an encounter between a self-possessed eighth-grader and a woman of a certain age near the statue of Simon Bolivar in New York's Central Park.
Title: Stephanie's Ponytail in - Munsch at Play / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Munsch, Robert Publisher: Annick Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - children large cast flexible casting (boys and girls) one act
adapted for the stage by Irene N. Watts.
Stephanie and her ponytail create a bunch of copycats in her class at school. Title: Still Laughing Three adaptations by Morris Panych Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - Morris Panych - comedy - adaptations
includes: The Government Inspector Hotel Peccadillo The Amorous Adventures of Anatol
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Still Life with Iris
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1999
Description:
roy adventure - drama - children thirteen characters five male; four female (doubling, flexible casting) two acts
Still Life with Iris is a fantastical adventure which centers on a little girl's search for the simplest of things: home. Iris lives with her mom in the land of Nocturno—a magical place in which the workers make, by night, all of the things we see in the world by day. Also, in Nocturno, memories do not reside in people's minds but instead are kept in their coats (called 'Past Coats'). The rulers of Nocturno, the Great Goods, are determined to have the "best" of everything on their island—and therefore take Iris away from her home and bring her to Great Island to be their daughter. To ease
Title: Stone Girls Dreaming in - Dramatics, vol. 82 , no. 3 / PER Author: Railsback, Lisa Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama-war six characters four female; two male; extras one-act
Based on a true story, “Stone Girls Dreaming” takes place over three days in March 2002 in the midst of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although war is an element of this play, its real focus is on humanity and hope as it examines the cultural pressures placed on two young girls. Title: Streak in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Smith, Tommy Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - baseball all male cast; two characters - voice two male one act
Presents an on-field encounter between a Hispanic third baseman and an American baseball coach.
Title: Streetcar Named Desire, A in - Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama twelve characters six male; six female three acts
1 interior set.
The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject so far as possible the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and
Title: Streetcar Named Desire, A
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1947
Description:
roy drama twelve characters six male; six female three acts
includes pictures from earlier productions.
The play reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject so far as possible the realities of life with which she is faced and which she consistently ignores. The pressure brought to bear upon her by her sister, with whom she goes to live in New Orleans, intensified by the earthy and Title: Student, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Hoverman, Matt Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
A two-character holiday comedy about a burnt-out, adult education writing teacher who rediscovers his passion in one of the strangest student-teacher conferences of all time.
Title: Stuff I Buried in a Small Town in - Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors / YCL Author: Bartlett, Mike Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - high school large cast flexible casting four scenes
Drama is all about people doing things to each other. In every single line of this play someone is doing something to someone else. This is a play about when we're active and when we're passive. It is not a city play. It is very much about a small town. As the sociologist says, these towns have their own rules and the important thing is that the audience understands, that this town is, for these people, the whole world.
Title: Such Creatures
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy women - monologues - drama all female cast; two characters two female one act
A young inner-city girl is on the cusp of the biggest fight of her young life. An elderly woman remembers her youth as a Polish Jew scrapping for survival in an internment camp. Both emanate unbelievable power and find strength through childhood memories of Shakespeare. Two characters and two monologues, tied together across time and place, their stories a candid pursuit of hope and empathy, even in the face of an unbelievably cruel world. Judith Thompson’s Such Creatures portrays her raw style of storytelling and showcases her incessant quest to Title: Suddenly Last Summer
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: New American Library 1958
Description:
roy drama seven characters two male; five female four scenes
1 set.
A woman tries to commit her niece to an asylum because the niece witnessed her cousin's death, a gruesome affair that could bring scandal to the family.
Title: Sumayyah's Difficult Predicament
Author: Uppal, Nazima Sohni Publisher: Uppal Paperbacks 2008
Description:
roy young adult - Pakistani - Canada nine characters two male; seven female; chorus; extras three acts
What do you do when faced with a difficult crossroad in life? Even better... what should you do when you are only 14 years old and you are faced with a difficult crossroad in life? Should you try to solve it all on your own? Should you ask for help from a Higher Power? Should you examine how your peers deal with similar decision-making obstacles? Or... should you leave it all up to your parents? After all, you are only 14.
Title: Sunday School Revelations in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Fuller, Ted Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy comedy - seniors two characters one male; one female one scene
Two seniors dressed as children discuss the bible using their own words. Title: Superior Donuts
Author: Letts, Tracy Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2010
Description:
roy comedy nine characters seven male; two female two acts
A love letter to the city where he has lived for more than twenty years, Letts describes his new work as “an exploration of the Chicago storefront experience.” The play takes place in the north side neighborhood of Uptown, where Arthur Przybyszewski runs the donut shop that has been in his family for sixty years. More content to spend the day smoking weed and reminiscing about his Polish immigrant father, Arthur hires a shop assistant, the young African American Franco Wicks, who has both an unpublished novel and unpaid gambling debt.
Title: Suppliant Women, The in - Euripides IV / COL Author: Euripides translated by Frank Jones Publisher: University of Chicago Press 1958
Description:
roy Greek tragedy - verse play eight characters; extras; chorus five male; three female one act
'This play deals with the aftermath of war stirred up against Eteocles, a son of Oedipus, by his brother Polynices, who had quarreled with him over the kingship of Thebes after their father's death.'
Title: Surprise in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Levine, Mark Harvey Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
A psychic young man finds the perfect mate. Title: Sweet Bird of Youth in - Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie / COL Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy drama twenty-two characters fifteen male; seven female three acts
2 interior sets.
A young hustler, cashing in on a moment of weakness in an aging movie actress, takes her to his hometown so that he can see the girl he deserted years ago. His reception in the town is less than pleasant and soon even the actress leaves him.
Title: Sweet Bird of Youth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie
Author: Williams, Tennessee Publisher: Penguin Books 1962
Description:
roy - collection - Tennessee Williams - full length
includes: Sweet Bird of Youth A Streetcar Named Desire The Glass Menagerie
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Sweetpeter in - Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors / YCL Author: Retallack, John Jalloh, Usifu Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - history - high school large cast flexible casting two acts
"I wrote SWEETPETER because of a comment I read by Richard Weight in his book, 'Patriots', that 'in the English character liberalism and racism co-exist'. I knew something of Sierra Leone and thought that the story of that country embodied that observation. After all, the English abolished slavery, set up a colony there and called it "Freedom" - and then, a century later, once again enslaved the the very people that they had freed. In Act One, the action centres on the founding by English missionaries of the 'Land of Freedom', a colony on the west coast of Africa in the late Title: Take Five
Author: Pederson, Westley M. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1983
Description:
roy comedy - theatre - high school six characters four male; two female one act
1 interior set.
Imagine you are an actor on opening night trying to perform on a set that isn't completed. Then one actor doesn't show up, a man from the audience uses your stage phone to argue with his wife, the props either don't work or are missing, the lighting and sound cues are off and two silly, incompetent stagehands. That's only the beginning of this award-winning show which actually
Title: Tale of the Johnson Boys, The in - Banana Man & Other Plays COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy drama - men - coming of age all male cast; two characters two male one act
In this powerful one act, two boys, John and Henry Johnson, tell the true story of their capture by Indians near the Ohio River in the late 1790s, and the bloody and terrible events that resulted. It is the defining experience of their lives, and the play is a haunting and complex allegory of violence, compassion, and ambiguous betrayal.
Title: Talk
Author: Nathanson, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
Old friends Josh and Gordon are out for drinks. A great evening is interrupted when a word, the wrong word, enters their conversation for the first time. 'Talk' is a funny, complex and touching look at a friendship torn asunder by clashing views about the Middle East conflict, examining both the power of language and the nature of friendship. Title: Tarantino Variation in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Kramer, Seth Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - movies all male cast or; all female cast; three characters three male or three female one act
Stages a holdup scene replete with references to the director's movies.
Title: Terezin Promise, The
Author: Raspanti, Celeste Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2004
Description:
roy drama - children - concentration camps - WWII eight characters; extras four male; four female one act
area staging; approximate running time: 40 minutes (depending on use of music and sound).
The liberation of Terezin concentration camp is at hand, and the Nazis are in retreat, desperate to destroy evidence of their crimes. While some prisoners escape hidden in the confusion of the retreat, Raja Englanderova remains to keep a promise she made to their teacher, Irena: she will not leave without the drawings and poems of the Terezin children. She convinces her friends and
Title: That's All You Need to Know in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Edwards, Pat Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy seniors - comedy - golf all female cast; two characters two female one scene
Two women discuss a man one of them met on the golf course. Title: Theatre Audition Book 2, The
Author: Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2009
Description:
Playing monologues from contemporary, modern, period, Shakespearean and classical plays.
Title: Theatre Centre Plays for young people Author: Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 2003
Description:
roy - young adult collection - one-acts
includes: Listen to your Parents - Benjamin Zephaniah Precious - Angela Turvey Look at Me - Anna Reynolds Gorgeous: A Journey of the Body - Anna Furse Glow - Manjinder Virk Souls - Roy Williams
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Theatre Craft A director's practical companion from A - Z Author: Caird, John Publisher: Faber and Faber 2010
Description:
An all-encompassing practical guide for anyone working in the theatre, from the enthusiastic amateur to the committed professional. With over four hundred alphabetical entries and extensive cross-referencing. Theatre Craft offers advice on all areas of directing from acting, adaptation, and agents to sound effects, superstitions, trap doors and wardrobe.
Enlightening and entertaining by turns, the celebrated director John Caird shares his profound knowledge of the stage to provide an invaluable companion to anyone creating a play, musical or opera. Whatever the theatre space - the backroom of a bar, a studio theatre, or the biggest stages of the West End or Broadway - this authoritative volume is an essential reference tool for the modern theatre practitioner. Title: Theatre of Genocide, The Four plays about mass murder in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, and Armenia Author: Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press 2008
Description:
roy - collection - war - genocide - war crimes - Rwanda - Bosnia - Cambodia - Armenia
includes: Exile in the Cradle - Lorne Shirinian Silence of God - Catherine Filloux A Patch of Earth - Kitty Felde Maria Kizito - Erik Ehn
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: There Shall Be No Bottom (A Bad Play for Worse Actors) in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: O'Donnell, Mark Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - theatre four characters three male; one female one act
Another backstager, includes roles for an actor who skips ahead in the script, another who regularly mispronounces his lines, a seriously over-aged actress, and a hapless stage manager forced onstage to cover a role.
Title: They're Not Like You and Me in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Espechit, Rita Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - immigrants five characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
running time: 15 min.; setting: Mars; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
The playwright wanted to give children a glimpse of what it's like to experience life through the eyes of a newcomer [immigrant], and decided to send them on a trip to Mars, walking in the shoes of an Earthling-born immigrant. She reckons that might do the trick. Title: Things That Go Bump Plays for young adults Author: Publisher: Signature Editions 2009
Description:
roy - drama - young adults - Canadian
includes: In This World - Hannah Moscovitch Offensive Fouls - Jason Long Learning the Game - Janice Salkeld To Be Frank - Brian Drader Binti's Journey - Marcia Johnson
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: This Land in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Sandberg, R. N. Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - American history fifteen characters; extras eight male; four female; one girl (doubling) two acts
setting: Northwestern United States; period - from 1844 to 1857; suggested for ages 10+.
The first American settlers in what is now Washington state struggle to make their homes as they face racial discrimination, friendly, and unfriendly Native Americans, the hardship of the American West, and sometimes ruthless government officials.
Title: Three Changes
Author: Silver, Nicky Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2009
Description:
roy dark comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
flexible set
Nate and Laurel are a seemingly happy couple living on New York's Upper West Side, busy, content and comfortable—until the surprising arrival of Hal, Nate's long-lost brother. A once-successful television writer, Hal is just out of rehab. He's out of cash and alone in the world. But what seems to be a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed to be Title: Three Postcards in - Prelude to a Kiss and other plays / COL Author: Lucas, Craig Carnelia, Craig Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2002
Description:
roy comedy - musical five characters two male; three female one act
music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia.
The place is a trendy restaurant in Greenwich Village, empty except for Bill (the pianist) and Walter (the waiter). Three young women, Big Jane, Little Jane and K.C., arrive for dinner, and for the conversation, daydreams and memories which then engage them. Deceptively simple and often very funny their table talk is mostly about everyday things, but in the fantasies to which they
Title: Threepenny Opera, The
Author: Brecht, Bertolt Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld 1960
Description:
roy satire - political thirty-two characters twenty male; twelve female three acts
6 interiors.
"Ballad opera based on John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' and poems of Francois Villon. Satirizes corrupt political conditions in 17th century England. Features exploits of Captain MacHeath, alias Mackie the Knife. Songs. Background music."
Title: Thucydides in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 34th series / COL Author: Elmegreen, Scott Fornarola, Drew Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
A young soldier and a college student meet at an airport in their hometown, and in learning about each other’s lives in Iraq and Princeton, each is lead to dramatic new conclusions about his own. Title: Tick, Tick... Boom!
Author: Larson, Jonathan Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2001
Description:
roy musical three characters two male; one female sixteen scenes
A three-character pop rock musical about facing crossroads in life and holding on to your dreams. It tells the story of Jon, a promising composer, on the eve of his thirtieth birthday. His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city (tick); his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue (tick); and he's still waiting tables and trying to write the Great American Musical before time and life pass him by (BOOM!).
Title: Ties that Bind in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Coble, Eric Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act
Portrays the trials and tribulations of modern life as embodied in a Houdini-like magic act.
Title: Timothy Findley's The Wars
Author: Garnhum, Dennis Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - coming of age twenty-two characters fourteen male; eight female two acts
This highly theatrical adaptation of Timothy Findley's classic novel traces the brutal coming of age of Robert Ross - a sensitive idealist who goes off to the Great War in 1915. Ross, who has a fondness for animals and shares a strong bond with his sister, trades his comfortable surroundings in Canada for the nightmare world of trench warfare. We watch Ross's slow unraveling as he moves from home to train to barracks and finally, to the mud, smoke, and chlorine gas of the front line in France. With death and dying everywhere around him, Ross makes Title: Tiny Tim is Dead in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Lebow, Barbara Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas six characters four male; two female two acts
setting: a dead-end city street; time: the present.
A group of street people attempt to celebrate the holiday, with heartbreaking results.
Title: Title of Show - vocal selections
Author: Bowen, Jeff Publisher: Williamson Music, Inc. 2006
Description:
Vocal selections from the musical.
includes: Untitled Opening Number Two Nobodies in New York An Original Musical Monkeys and Playbills Part of it All I am Playing Me What Kind of Girl is She? Die Vampire, Die! September Song
Title: To Be Frank in - Things That Go Bump / YCL Author: Drader, Brian Publisher: Signature Editions 2009
Description:
roy drama - censorship - high school five characters three male; two female one act
Frank is your average disorganised, distracted, net-surfing high school kid, who's also assistant editor of the school newspaper. Emma, the paper's editor, orders Frank to cut an anonymous letter about one of the school’s most unpopular teachers. When the letter accidentally gets printed and Emma gets into trouble with the school principal, Frank ⌦desperately tries to find a way to appease the situation. With an unhappy administration censoring their every move, Frank proposes a risky solution that could counteract their school’s suppressive actions, or add fuel to Title: Tofu Wars, The in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - Japanese-Canadian five characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
running time: 15 min.; setting: Powell Street, Vancouver, 1931; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
Based on Ouchi's memories of the stories her beloved grandmother Betty "Yoko" Ouchi told her when she was a child, about growing up in the vibrant Japanese Canadian community on Powell Street before WWII.
Title: Toronto the Good
Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - crime - politics - racism twenty-one characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts
"After a young white cop charges a black man with illegal firearm possession, accusations of racial profiling are levelled against the Toronto officer. When top Crown attorney Thomas Mathews, a victim of racial profiling himself, is assigned to prosecute the accused against a Left-leaning white attorney, tensions mount and personal politics bubble to the surface. Cutting deep into the lawyers’ private lives, their families and foibles are richly portrayed as an integral part of Toronto’s shifting mosaic. From an ostensibly routine traffic stop, each character must
Title: Totem Figures in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 141 / PER Author: Dawe, T J Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy drama one character one male monologue
An autobiographical account of the the author's history as a Fringe writer and performer. Title: Train Driver, The in - American Theatre (Sept. 2010) / PER Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act
Two isolated characters in a desolate setting grappling with ghosts of the past, present and the future.
Title: Trespassers, The
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2010
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female one act
Fifteen-year-old Lowell is no average teenager, and his grandfather Hardy, no conventional role model. Whether urging the boy to pilfer peaches from an orchard, arranging for his sexual initiation, or teaching him the importance of gambling, Hardy is the despair of Lowell's born-again mother, Cash. But how far into forbidden territory has Lowell actually ventured? When Inspector Milton shows up to investigate a mysterious murder, Lowell's skill at shaping the truth to protect himself and those he cares about are put to the ultimate test: shall he plea bargain, or
Title: Trevor in - Little Boxes / COL Author: Bowen, John Publisher: Methuen & Co 1968
Description:
roy drama eight characters four male; four female one act
Part of 'Little Boxes' (see also 'The Coffee Lace').
"Lesbian couple hire an actor as lover of one, fiance of the other, when parents come to visit." Title: Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, The
Author: Shores, Del Ward, Joe Patrick Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships four characters one male; three female three acts
music by Joe Patrick Ward; lyrics by Sharyn Lane, Del Shores & Joe Patrick Ward
Willi is the trailer trash housewife of the title, not necessarily of her own volition. Her abusive husband won’t let her get a job, one of her children is dead, and the other is verboten by her husband because he’s gay. Her best and only friend, a large black woman who lives next door, worries about her constantly, always concerned that Willi’s husband will end up killing her. A new
Title: Triangle Factory Fire Project, The
Author: Piehler, Christopher Evans, Scott Alan Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy drama - historical multiple characters five male; four female (doubling) two acts
Saturday, March 25, 1911. 4:45 P.M. In the Triangle Waist Factory off downtown Manhattan's Washington Square where 500 immigrant workers from Poland, Russia and Italy toil fourteen-hour days making lady's dresses; a cigarette is tossed into a bin of fabric scraps. Despite desperate efforts, flames sweep through the eighth, ninth and tenth floors. Panic-stricken workers run in all directions. On the ninth floor, some make it to the fire escape, only to have it collapse beneath their weight. Others run to the exit door but find it locked—many, including the
Title: True Love Lies
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - dark comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
"An audacious and outrageous comedy of bad manners. With the crackle of lightning fast one-liners, acidic exchanges and wickedly witty characters, Brad’s hilarious new play shatters our illusions about the “perfect” Canadian family." Title: Turtle Island Blues in - New International Plays for Young Audiences / YCL Author: Borden, William Publisher: Meriweather Publishing Ltd. 2002
Description:
roy young adult - American history ten characters seven male; three female two acts
setting: Castile, the Ocean Sea, Turtle Island (sometimes known as America); period - 1492-present; suggested for high school.
Turtle Island Blues sails through 500 years of American (Turtle Island) history and features Sitting Bull, who travels through space and time, Columbus, Isabella (who, disguised as a cabin boy, accompanies Columbus to the new world), the trial and incarceration of Leonard Peltier,
Title: Twelve Plays of Christmas, The Traditional and modern plays for the holidays Author: Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy - collection - Christmas
includes: Part One: Traditional Plays: A Christmas Pageant - Anonymous, drawn from the Scriptures The Second Shepherd's Play - Anonymous, adapted by Aurand Harris Saint George and the Dragon at Christmas Tide - Anonymous, adapted by Marjorie Sigley Part Two: Religious Plays: Black Nativity - Langston Hughes The Shepherds of Saint Francis - Lowell Swortzell Amahl and the Night Visitors - Gian-Carlo Menotti Part Three: Non-Religious Plays:
Title: Two Trains Running 1969
Author: Wilson, August Publisher: Theatre Communications Group 2007
Description:
roy drama - civil rights seven characters six male; one female two acts
TWO TRAINS RUNNING, one of Wilson’s most overtly and pointedly political works, takes place during the heyday of the black power movement, at a moment of great upheaval in U.S. race relations. It is one of a series of plays dealing with African American culture and history in the twentieth century, and perhaps its central theme is the manner in which the poor urban black community reacted to legal victories of the civil rights movement. The garrulous characters, the regulars at a Pittsburgh ghetto lunch counter in 1969, are witnesses to history too removed from Title: Under Construction in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Mee, Charles L. Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama seven to nine characters flexible casting twenty-nine scenes
"A collage of America today—scenes and songs and dances inspired by Norman Rockwell of the fifties, and scenes and songs and dances inspired by the installation artist of the present day, Jason Rhoades: Rockwell and Rhoades juxtaposed side by side—then and now, the fifties and the present, the red states and the blue states, where we grew up and where we live today, a piece that is, like America, permanently under construction."
Title: Valerie of Now, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Hedges, Peter Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act
A 12-year-old girl celebrates her menarche.
Title: Valparaiso
Author: DeLillo, Don Publisher: Scribner 1999
Description:
roy comedy four characters; interviewers; chorus/camera crew three male; three female two acts
A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. This is Don DeLillo's second play, and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare to say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unsaid. And everything melts repeatedly into something Title: Venice Preserved; or, A Plot Discovered in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Otway, Thomas Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy Restoration - tragedy nineteen characters; extras seventeen male; two female five acts
"Restoration tragedy in blank verse set in 17th century Venice. Young nobleman who joins conspiracy to overthrow state brings disaster upon himself, fellow conspirators and his wife".
Title: Victory
Author: Fugard, Athol Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - teenagers - South Africa three characters two male; one female one act
Set in the New South Africa (after the first free election in 1994), this play features two adolescents, Vicky and Freddie, from Pienaarsig, the township in Nieu Bethesda that separates the coloreds from the whites. When she was alive, Vicky's mother worked as a maid for Lionel and his wife. Now, Vicky and Freddie have come to rob Lionel's house. Lionel discovers them, and this leads to a night of dialogue in which Vicky and Freddie reveal the hardships of their lives in poverty, with neither education nor jobs. Freddie is aiming for a life of crime in Cape Town, where
Title: Village of Idiots
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Jewish play twelve characters eight male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
A year in the life of Chelm, the village of fools legendary in Jewish folklore. Outsider Yosef falls in love with another "stranger" and watches in fear as the "Chelmniks" prepare for a Cossack attack. Title: Visit from St. Nicholas, A; or, The Night Before Christmas in - The Twelve Plays of Christmas / CHR Author: Swortzell, Lowell Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2000
Description:
roy Christmas - comedy six characters two male, four female (may be boys and girls) one act
The writing of the classic poem and how it was saved by Clement Clark Moore's children.
Title: Vital Signs
Author: Martin, Jane Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy monologues - comedy eight characters two male; six female two acts
bare stage.
The author of Talking With and other hits has never been funnier or more compelling than in this suite of theatrical miniatures over thirty two-minute monologues. The two men in the cast are optional foils for the six compelling women who perform a collage about contemporary woman in all her warmth and majesty, her fear and frustration, her joy and sadness.
Title: Volleygirls in - Dramatics (May 2010) / PER Author: Ackerman, Rob Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009
Description:
roy comedy - high school - volleyball sixteen characters six male; ten female (doubling possible) twenty-one scenes
Volleygirls spikes a lively, heartfelt look at a down-and-out girls high school volleyball team. Following a string of losses and facing their biggest rival, the girls of Saint Agnes hatch a wild plan to turn their flailing team around - while helping their self-defeating coach to confront his "loseritis". The action isn't limited to the court, though, as parents play out their own dramas in the stands. Fast-paced and funny, Volleygirls captures the spirit and passion of everything you love about team sports. Title: Volpone; or, The Fox
Author: Jonson, Ben Publisher: Yale University Press 1978
Description:
nonroy drama sixteen characters; extras fourteen male; two female five acts
4 interior and 2 exterior sets; period costumes.
"Volpone, a rich Venetian nobleman but a miserly money-lender, gives out that he is at the point of death in order to draw gifts from his would-be heirs. They flock to him like birds of prey. Mosca, his knavish parasite, persuades each that he is named as heir and thus extracts a costly gift. Hailed into court, Volpone is betrayed by Mosca, his property is forfeited, and his sentence is
Title: Wagon Wheels a-Rollin' A rootin' tootin' comedy in two acts Author: Kelly, Tim Publisher: Pioneer Drama Service 1992
Description:
roy comedy - western large cast flexible casting two acts
simple exterior set.
Woe falls upon Chuck Wagon's wagon train, stranded in the notorious Whistling Skull Rock outside the tiny town of Vinegar Bottle, famed for its "I'm O.K. You're O.K. Corral" and crawling with villains and bandits! This fast-paced spoof of the Old West is filled with a goofy stable of hilarious characters: our trailblazin' hero, Chuck Wagon; our sweet heroine, Candy Cane; and the
Title: Wan2tlk? in - Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors / YCL Author: Fegan, Kevin Publisher: Methune Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - communications - high school - music large cast; choruses flexible casting seventeen scenes
Mobiles phones are everywhere. But are we any better at communicating with each other? Names of characters and locations may be changed to suit the needs of the performing group. Title: Wanda's Visit in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Durang, Christopher Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy four to six characters (flexible casting) two - three male; two - three female one act
Jim and Marsha have been married for 13 years and are feeling a little bored and unhappy. Wanda, Jim's old girlfriend, shows up for a visit, and becomes the guest from hell. Out one night for dinner, all hell breaks loose in the restaurant as a waiter tries to cope on his first day with the confused threesome.
Title: Wanted
Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - historical six characters four male; two female two acts
Set during the Klondike gold rush, Wanted is a celebration of one woman’s determination to triumph over all who seek to possess her in a harsh social climate of chaos, opportunism, raw desire, greed and lust. Wanted is far more than a period-piece history play. Resonant with echoes of the contemporary global village in which every one and every thing, including body parts and functions, have their cynically and openly advertised price, it is a portrait of raw desire, greed and lust for acquisition stripped of every veneer of civilization and reduced to a confrontation of the
Title: War Horse
Author: Stafford, Nick Morpurgo, Michael Publisher: Faber and Faber 2007
Description:
roy drama - war - puppets - horses large cast flexible casting thirty scenes
Nick Stafford's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's work.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the calvary and shipped to France. Caught up in enemy fire, fate takes Joey on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land. but Albert cannot forget Joey, and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to bring him home. Title: Way of All Fish, The in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: May, Elaine Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act
The first part of Power Plays by Elaine May and Alan Arkin, portrays a shift in the balance of power between a female executive and her secretary.
Title: Way of the World, The in - Restoration Plays / COL Author: Congreve, William Publisher: Random House 1953
Description:
nonroy Restoration - comedy twelve characters; extras six male; six female five acts
2 interiors and 1 exterior; singing and dancing.
"Restoration comedy of manners. Satire on 17th century London society. Aunt forgives niece's lover after he helps extricate her from intrigue."
Title: We All Fall Down in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: McAllister, Brenna Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - young adult - homelessness eighteen characters; extras five male; three female; ten flexible one act
"We All Fall Down" explores theme of youth homelessness in Toronto. Title: We Cannot Know the Mind of God in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Horowitz, Mikhail Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - religion six characters four male; two female (doubling possible) one act
This play presents an odd guessing game between God and Adam and Eve.
Title: Wedding Duet in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Wilson, Lauren Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act
Presents the first marital spat of a newlywed couple, literally on the threshold of their new life together.
Title: Wedding Pool, The in - Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gladstone, Amiel Publisher: Coach House Press 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act
"3 dissatisfied single friends start a betting pool to see who will get married first. When one of them starts a relationship, things get interesting." Title: Welcome to Acceptance in - Seniors Acting Up / COL Author: Paiste, Terryl Publisher: ArtAge - Senior Theatre Resource Center 1996
Description:
roy seniors - comedy two characters one male; one female one act
A senior attempts to rob a bank, but runs into a precocious bank teller.
Title: Well-Digger's Daughter, The; or, She Found Herself in Deep Water
Author: Cope, Eddie Williams, Carl L. Publisher: Big Dog Publishing 2006
Description:
roy comedy six characters three male; three female one act
Caution: The humor in this play may be a bit dry. Set in Tarantula, TX at the turn of the century, a humble well-digger, hardrock Flint, and his soon-to-be son-in-law, Gus, have set out to strike it rich by digging wells, but all they've found so far is a lot of dirt. Meanwhile, the exceptionally evil Sly Snookerall has hatched a heartless scheme to steal the well-digger's homestead, send him to the poorhouse, and then marry his beautiful daughter, Dolly. Hardrock better find a way to dig himself out of this one, ore he's going to end up at the Last Roundup Retirement Home!
Title: When You Comin Back, Red Ryder?
Author: Medoff, Mark Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 1974
Description:
roy drama eight characters five male; three female two acts
'Patrons of a New Mexico diner are terrorized and forced to face the truth about themselves and others by a young amoral tough.' Title: While We're Young
Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - war - relationships nineteen characters; extras; choir; musicians (doubling possible) ten male; nine female two acts
A young soldier goes to Afghanistan, another to Passchendaele. A family splits in two when a Protestant falls in love with a Catholic; one hundred and twenty years later, it could happen all over again for a whole new set of reasons. In this poignant play, six generations of young men and women move into adulthoods filled with emotional and dramatic surprises.
Title: Whitechapel in - Festival Voices / CCO Author: Bielinski, Maya Rankin, Donald Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy musical - Canadian - young adult large cast flexible casting one act
book and lyrics by Maya Bielinski; music by Donald Rankin and Charles Hoppner.
Description not available.
Title: Widdershins
Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - mystery ten characters four male; six female two acts
Inspector Ruffing, the troubled hero of Nigro's Ravenscroft, Demonology, Creatures Lurking In The Churchyard , The Rooky Wood and Mephisto returns in this baffling mystery that was an audience favorite at the First International Mystery Festival in 2007. In a peaceful house near the Welsh border, an entire family has vanished suddenly without a trace one evening with supper on the table and no apparent violence. Ruffing's attempt to understand what's happened to a couple and their two daughters leads him deep into his own dark soul. The only clue is a piece of paper Title: Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry in - Humana Festival 2009 / COL Author: Masterson, Marc Hansel, Adrien-Alice Publisher: Playscripts, Inc. 2009
Description:
roy drama - poems four characters; one musician two male; two female thirty-six vignettes
from the writing of Wendell Berry; original music by Malcolm Dalglish.
"An exploration of the earth, its citizens and the impact of each on the other. This world premiere brings the work of nationally acclaimed poet, novelist and ecological visionary Wendell Berry to the stage in a celebration of words, music and a life well lived."
Title: Wild Mouth
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - relationships seven characters four male; three female two acts
A passionate encounter between a grieving mother and a troubled soldier just back from France illuminates WILD MOUTH. Anna is a British-born immigrant who returns to her brother's prairie farm in 1917 to help with the harvest and to try to heal. There she meets Bohdan, a young man of Ukrainian descent who changed his name to Smith in order to get to the Front. Anna's desperation to understand her son's death propels both of them to the edge of an abyss. This seven character play explores the enduring connections between love and war, beauty and horror, creation and
Title: Wild Turkeys in - Banana Man & Other Plays / COL Author: Nigro, Don Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one scene
In this short, powerful, poetic monologue, Miranda, age 16, tells of being both fascinated and horrified by the grotesque wild turkeys that have been coming down from the woods on foggy mornings. She has a terrible premonition that they are messengers of death who've come to take the child that is growing inside her. But this terrifying vision is what helps her decide if she wants to keep her child. Title: Willy Wonka - vocal selections
Author: Dahl, Roald Bricusse, Leslie Publisher: Cherry Lane Music Company 2006
Description:
Leslie Bricusse and Tim McDonald's adaptation of Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka. Vocal Selections from the musical. Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Contains CD.
includes: Pure Imagination The Golden Age of Chocolate The Candy Man I Eat More Think Positive I See It All on TV Cheer Up, Charlie Think Positive (reprise)/I've Got a Golden Ticket
Title: Witness in - The Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 / COL Author: Maloney, Peter Publisher: Applause Theatre Book Publishers 2010
Description:
roy drama - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male five parts
An actor descends into madness.
Title: Woman of No Importance, A in - Five Plays by Oscar Wilde / COL Author: Wilde, Oscar Publisher: Bantam Books 1972
Description:
roy comedy - English fifteen characters eight male; seven female four acts
3 interiors; 1 exterior.
"Social comedy. Young Englishman's courtship of rich American orphan is complicated by the reappearance of his father after a 25 year absence." Title: Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, The
Author: Isitt, Debbie Publisher: Josef Weinberger Plays 1993
Description:
roy comedy - relationships three characters one male; two female one act
Kenneth and Hilary have been married nearly twenty years, but as middle age encroaches, Kenneth finds himself in the arms of another woman. At first, Laura seems to represent everything that is missing from Kenneth's life with Hilary, but his little fling quickly becomes desperately out of hand and his world a spiral of lies and deceit. After his initial denials, Kenneth is soon forced to confront the truth and leaves Hilary for Laura. Only one little problem... Laura can't cook. As time goes by, Kenneth mourns the loss of Sunday roasts and haute cuisine, and the comforts of a
Title: Women of Lockerbie, The
Author: Brevoort, Deborah Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2005
Description:
roy poetic drama - historical - women seven characters two male; five female seven episodes
A mother from New Jersey roams the hills of Lockerbie Scotland, looking for her son's remains that were lost in the crash of Pan Am 103. She meets the women of Lockerbie, who are fighting the U.S. government to obtain the clothing of the victims found in the plane's wreckage. The women, determined to convert an act of hatred into an act of love, want to wash the clothes of the dead and return them to the victim's families. THE WOMEN OF LOCKERBIE is loosely inspired by a true story, although the characters and situations in the play are purely fictional. Written in the
Title: Working on a New Play A play development handbook for actors, directors, designers, and playwrights Author: Cohen, Edward M. Publisher: Limelight Editions 1997
Description:
Here ia a groundbreaking book that explains play development to every participant in the process. It teaches the basics of the collaborative method that extends from the writer's first words through the opening night performance of the new play, explaining how all the artists interact to combine everyone's vision into an accomplished, finished production. Title: World Apart, A in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Urra, Guillermo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - cultures - immigrants - Chile four characters two male; two female (flexible casting) one act
running time: 15 min.; setting: Chile and a national park in Canada; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
The idea of this anthology came from a couple of different sources in the playwright's life: his grandparents and their immigration to Canada from Chili in the mid-70s during a coup, and his frustrations and problems with growing up in Calgary with the name Guillermo.
Title: Woza Albert!
Author: Mtwa, Percy Ngema, Mbongeni Publisher: Methune Drama 1983
Description:
roy drama - religion all male cast; two characters two male one act
WOZA ALBERT! is based on one dazzlingly simple idea - that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ should take place in present-day South Africa.
Title: Year of Magical Thinking, The
Author: Didion, Joan Publisher: Vintage International 2007
Description:
roy monologues - women - biographical - loss all female cast; one character one female nine parts
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. Title: Yellowman
Author: Orlandersmith, Dael Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc. 2002
Description:
roy drama - racism two characters one male; one female four parts
flexible set.
YELLOWMAN is a multi-character memory play about an African-American woman who dreams of life beyond the confines of her small-town Southern upbringing and the light-skinned man whose fate is tragically intertwined with hers. The play explores the negative associations surrounding male blackness as well as the effect these racial stereotypes have on black women.
Title: Young Blood
Author: Publisher: Aurora Metro Press 1998
Description:
roy - collection - young adult
includes: The Girl Who Fell Through a Hole in her Jumper - Naomi Wallace and Bruce McLeod The Search for Odysseus - Charles Way Darker the Berry - J.B. Rose Geraniums - Sheila Yeger Out of their Heads - Marcus Romer
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Your Mother's Butt in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Ball, Alan Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act
YOUR MOTHER'S BUTT focuses on a therapist desperately searching for clues to help her seriously disturbed young patient. As the patient rattles on about shoes and belts, he recalls a dream he had about his mother, and the therapist thinks she's got her answer. Title: Zero Hour Based on the life of Zero Mostel Author: Brochu, Jim Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy comedy - biography - monologue all male cast; one character one male two acts
Set in theatre legend Zero Mostel’s painting studio on West 28th Street, a naïve reporter attempts to interview the famously volatile artist, prompting an explosion of memory, humor, outrage and juicy backstage lore. Mostel is remembered for his comedic genius and his definitive roles, but in the 1950's he was equally known for his place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist. Mostel's swagger, ferocity, intelligence and fantastic wit is brought back to the stage in this volcanic tour-de-force.
Title: Zig Zag Woman in - Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays / COL Author: Martin, Steve Publisher: Vintage Books 2007
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female one act
Pushed to amazing lengths to relieve profound loneliness, a waitress magically separates herself into three parts to facilitate her quest for a man. She encounters an old man waiting for true love, a middle aged man who has stopped looking, and a fiery young man who longs for a woman in pieces.